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OUR BELIEF. 



To which we Subscribe that we may become the Happy Sons of the Father. 



1. That Adam and Eve were created in the garden of Eden. 

2. That they did violate the first edict in reference to man 
— it being a prohibition edict. 

3. That the Father turned them out of the garden into a 
cursed world that brought briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. 

4. That Adam was tried by the Father and found guilty of 
violating the law. 

5. And received the sentence "go into the world and by the 
sweat of the brow eat your bread all the days of your life." 

6. That Eve was tried by the same faithful judge and found 
guilty and received her sentence as follows: "You shall go; 
be subject to your husband; travail in childbirth all the days of 
your life." 

7. We believe we are the same flesh and blood of Adam, 
perpetuated by his germ, and will be so perpetuated until the 
last moment, in which the great fire comes, in which all flesh 
shall be made pure and be prepared for birth by and through 
Christ, who is the son of the Creator and commissioned to 
redeem us from the sin of Adam and Eve. 

8. We do acknowledge Christ as the true lamb, slain for our 
redemption. 



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9. That He does possess the germ power to reinstate us from 
the water and spirit which is the decomposed body of ourselves, 
thereby producing the same person we are now (save the germ). 

10. We do acknowledge that he has been in the sin-cursed 
earth and trod down the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns to 
make the way clear for us. 

11. We do believe that we will be born as little babes and 
will soon grow up to mind and strength, after which Enoch, 
Elijah and Eastland will come forth and out of their mouths 
will tell us all things. 

12. That we will be clothed in a white robe and take up the 
line of march along the straight and narrow road that leads to 
life eternal, where we will pass in review before the Father and 
hear the good and welcome applaudit given to the son for his 
faithful work in bringing back the lost children. The welcome 
news will ring out: "Pass to the tree of life which you have 
been debarred from for thousands of years, there put forth the 
hands, partake of the fruit of that tree and live forever." Then 
we will receive a gentle bow from the Father as a token of His 
recognition. Then the glorious shout will go up for the Lamb. 
Yes, it will make the heavenly arches ring as they never rang 
before. 

To the above we subscribe. 



LESSON NO. 1. 



This lecture will contain the true version of Adam and Eve, 
who were the parents of the present generation. 

The}' possessed within themselves the germ of perpetuation, 
without which the race would have passed out of existence. 

God created these two persons self-willed and self-acting, and 
they obtained the germ of life,-f- and through them all nations 
of the earth have sprung. They violated the first edict given 
in this world, which was a prohibition edict.* This edict is 
given in Moses' History of the Beginning: " You may eat of 
all the fruit of the garden, except one tree." This tree stood 
in the middle of the garden, and was so described that it could 
not be mistaken. Eve, however, did eat of it when alone, after 
which she brought some to Adam, and he knowing the fruit, 
but being over-persuaded, did eat thereof. JN r ow the curse fol- 
lows the edict. The penalty was, « The day you eat thereof you 
shall surely die." Xow, did they die? 

The day here spoken of is the day of their perpetuation and 
that day has not yet ended, but will surely end when the great 
fire comes, but no man knoweth the hour of its coming, but it 
will come like a thief in the night. (We will speak more fully 
of the fire in the future.) 

Now, we will return to the garden and learn what God did 
with them (Adam and Eve). He said to them that the earth 
shall be accursed on your account. It shall bring forth briars, 

* No wonder we have so many antis. |By eating the forbidden fruit. 



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brambles, thistles and thorns. Does it bring forth those things? 
The answer is from all, " Yes." He then led them to the east 
gate of the garden and pronounced his sentence upon them as 
does the judge upon the condemned criminals. He said to 
Adam, " You shall go into the world and by the sweat of your 
brow eat your bread all the days of your life." Here behold 
the convict standing in the presence of the judge, trembling in 
sorrow for what he had done. 

He then addressed Eve: "You shall go; be subject to your 
husband, and travail in childbirth, all the days of your life." 

We see them now start, amid the briars, brambles, thistles 
and thorns. They clear a small patch and plant some seeds and 
commence the work of husbandry which continues to this day. 

Then God turned his back on them and said, " Here stands 
the tree of life. Lest Adam returns and partakes of the fruit of 
this tree, I will place a naming sword around it, whose edge 
shall turn in all directions." I ask a question. Does man eat 
his bread by the sweat of his brow? Does woman live subject 
toher husband and does she travail in childbirth? Did God 
place the flaming sword? If so, what was it composed of, and 
has it been sufficient to protect the tree of life up to this day? 
I boldly say that He did place it, and it is a perfect barrier to 
sinful man, and there is not one free from sin — yea, none. 
Now, the sword was made of water, (congealed), upon one side 
of the garden; upon the other side it was made of heat. Man 
has never been able to define either further than to say that cold 
is the absence of heat and heat is the absence of cold. So they 
stand opposite to each other and cold and heat produce a flame, 
hence the flaming sword, for it stays the approach of man at all 
times. Man, in his blindness, has made many attempts to pass 
this sword, but it is hoped when this goes to the world he will 



LESSON No. 1. 



no further attempt to pass into the Garden of Eden but by the 
way the Creator has laid down for his return, which will come 
soon after the day of Adam's death, which no man knoweth — 
not even the angels in heaven — which is the Garden of Eden. 
No man has been permitted to enter there except Enoch and 
Elijah. Christ was, of course, carried over and is there this 
hour upon the throne with the Father, dwelling in the presence 
of Enoch and Elijah. 

"We are taught by the scriptures, " Out of the mouth of two 
or three witnesses all things shall be substantiated." Then, 
when are those witnesses to speak? The time has not yet come. 
Before this lecture closes I will tell you when and where, also 
repeating what they will substantiate. 

After God had sent Adam and Eve out from his presence He 
was clothed in sorrow, and set to work that they might be re- 
deemed, that is, brought back to the Garden of Eden again. 
But to accomplish this requires .a long time, although it is but 
one day with the Creator. The Bible says a day with the 
Creator is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day. 
The Creator set about the work and sent His only begotten son, 
that He might open the gateway and bring them back; or, in other 
words, make the earth all a garden and have man living therein. 
In order to do this, He had to take on humanity, walk in the 
wilderness as we do, though not blind, but seeing all things and 
knowing all things that the three witnesses might relate to man 
when redeemed. We are taught in the Holy Writ unless we are 
again born of Christ, we can in no wise enter the Kingdom of 
Heaven. I say unto you, man, this is true, but you have not 
been taught when and how you are to be born. Christ told His 
disciples, " you must be born of the spirit and of water." They 
did not comprehend the full meaning of these words, so He 



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said, " I go and will send yon the Comforter. This Comforter 
is to tell yon all about it." Those words are words of comfort 
to as many as believe. Those who will not believe will be classed 
with the blind spoken of by Christ, and will be led by the blind, 
and they will all fall in the ditch. 

I will now take the subject of Creation, and ask a simple 
question that I have propounded to more than one hundred 
persons and not one has been able to answer it correctly. This 
question is: " Upon what principle did the Creator separate the 
water from the land, when he said let there be dry land and 
there was dry land?" Answer: He simply evaporated one 
portion and left the remainder subject to evaporation. He then 
placed His condenser, and as it is evaporated from the earth, 
the rivers, lakes and ocean, it is condensed and returned to the 
earth, rivers, lakes and oceans. Thus' evolution is produced as 
is the water; so is all that was created by the Father. Hence 
we assert that it takes in all animal, vegetable and mineral mat- 
ter, and all flavors that exist, and each possesses its own specific 
germ and one has no affinity for the other. Where family rela- 
tion does exist families will amalgamate, but no farther. 

The earth is not subject to any of these changes further than 
to exist in all the substances spoken of. Hence it is found to 
be a component part of all animal, vegetable and mineral mat- 
ter. Hence we may speak of it as omnipresent (existing in all 
things and all things in it). All created matter exists in two 
forms, the bodily form or form of solidity, and the spiritual 
form or form without weight, floating in the firmaments until 
taken up by the germ and reproduced in the body again, and so 
Adam and Eve live at this hour, and the day will only end 
when the great renovating fire takes place, which no man knows the 
day thereof, but it will surely come like unto a thief in the night. 



LESSON No. 1. 



We will take up the subject of Christ free from the sins which 
hang upon the seed of Adam, whose people He dwelt among. 
He was born of Mary, a woman of the race of Adam, but as 
Adam possessed the germ power, therefore there was none of the 
Adam germ, but it came from the Father who had no sin, al- 
though Christ's father was the father of Adam. Adam took 
upon himself the sin which rests upon all his posterity. Christ 
sinned not, but marked out the way his sinful brother might be 
returned to the first estate, or the garden of Eden, which the 
Father had debarred him from coming into by erecting the 
flaming sword, which was composed of cold and heat. 

As there were people on earth who denied Christ being the 
Christ spoken of in the Bible, before and after His coming, He 
left an abundance of proof of those things, if it were not for 
blindness, hence He spoke forcibly of that class. "How can 
the blind see unless their eyes are opened by such as can see?" 
Christ said: " I am the vine and life of all creation." Life is 
more clearly understood by saying germ, as all life is given 
through the power of the germ, and without the germ there is no 
life given. Hence Christ having the germ of all things has 
full power to bring all things into the body. To prove this He 
and his disciples went out unto the mountain where there could 
be no bread or fish to be found, save the small amount they 
carried with them, reported to be live loaves of bread and seven 
fishes. There followed him about five thousand people. "When 
far off in the mountain they were hungry and called for some- 
thing to eat. Here Christ fed the multitude with the small 
amount of food that was in sight and had thirteen baskets of 
fragments left. Here our teachers say, " this was a miracle " 
and stop. Well, it was a miracle to the blind, for they could 
not see how he did it. They did not know that the flour existed 



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in the firmament, nor did they know that the fish existed there 
in the spiritual form, and that Christ, through the power of his 
germ, collected the flour into the loaf, as likewise he collected 
the fish, to the full satisfaction of all present. 

This teaches us the evolution of flour and the flesh of fish and 
the germ of the wheat gathers after the same order that Christ 
did. The germ of wheat has no power to gather anything save 
the flour of wheat. The germ of the fish has no power over any 
other flesh save that of the fish. Christ, being the vine and 
life of all things that were made by the Creator, has the power 
to gather into the body all the great variety of matter and make 
it fit for the use of man. He was therefore fully prepared to 
feed the multitude in the mountain. He could have fed them 
on all the fruits and berries that grow and are gathered by the 
powers of the vine and germ. 

So these things teach us evolution and that Christ was the 
true son of God, and that He did descend from the garden of 
Eden and, after being crucified, did ascend above the flaming 
sword and thus passed over into the garden of Eden, and is 
to-day awaiting for the end of Adam's day so that he (Adam) 
may die as the Creator said he should, the day he eat the for- 
bidden fruit. What is he waiting to do? He is waiting to send 
forth his germs into the firmaments, where dwells all flesh and 
all the waters of the earth, for it is said when the great reno- 
vating fire comes, the rivers, lakes and the mighty deep shall be 
dried up. The flesh, animal and mineral matter, will take their 
place, in the spirit form, above the earth, all mingling in one 
vast reservoir, where the germ is again planted and will call or 
draw into the body again. Then Christ will send out His germ 
and it will draw from this vast mass of spirits the flesh and 
bone of man, and it will form like unto little babes from the 



LESSON No. 1. II 



dry water and the spirit, though free from the sin the germ of 
Adam possessed. 

We will state here that, at the coming of the fire, the 
word is that " none shall be left; yea, not one." With this, 
Adam dies and his day has ended. This, we say, is altogether 
feasible with the greatest skeptic that may exist in that, the last 
hour of the first day. When the Creator destroyed the inhabi- 
tants of the earth by water, He saved Noah and his immediate 
family so the Adam germ was thereby continued. When the 
earth is cooled off, the little babes of Christ will appear like 
young grasshoppers of the spring. They will be cared for by 
Christ, who will feed them upon the sweet manna, gathered 
from the firmaments, and when they all become stout He will 
clap his hands and sing, " Hosannah! the lost is found." Then 
the flocks will unfurl their wings and cry, "Redemption! Re- 
demption," and mount upon their wings and fly off for the 
Fatherland, where the Son will receive great praises and the 
multitude will shout, " Hallelujah! Hallelujah to the Lamb." 
At this time Enoch, Elijah and the third person will step to the 
front and from their mouths all things will be substantiated. 
They will be told of their exit from the garden of Eden ; of 
their travel in the wilderness; of their trials and temptations; of 
Christ's advent upon the earth, His sufferings and crucifixion, His 
rising from the dead upon the third day, His exit to the garden, 
His reception by the Father, His patience until the coming hour 
and His flock was again born and escorted into His presence. 

Here will be joy that tongue cannot express; yea, the joy will 
be such that the angels cannot stand still: 



Their joy will be complete, 
Their song and praise loud and sweet. 
As the rustling of their wings and feet ; 
They will hie to the tree of life, 
There its life-preserving fruit to eat. 



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Now redemption is complete, and man, the pilgrim, has re- 
turned to his first estate, where he will bask in the sunshine of 
the Father and of the Son who gave up his life that this might 
be done. 

The earth, cleared of its briars, brambles, thistles and thorns, 
will become one great level plane filled with all the beauties the 
mind can imagine. Who could not live lowly and meekly to 
behold this grandeur, doing unto others as you would have them 
do unto you? 

We cast away none, but say your sins stick to you in this life 
and you are made to suffer for all the sins you commit here in 
this life. So, I say, buckle on your armor to do Christ's will 
until He comes to claim you through His germ. The day will 
surely come, and that will be the beginning of the second day 
of the creation, and the morning of that day will be the time of 
much joy and great rejoicing. Man, give praise to the Creator. 
Praise ye the Lord! Praise him all tongues here below. 

This is the comforter Christ promised when He was about to 
leave us. " If I go, I will send you the comforter.'" Is it not 
great comfort to learn that all are to be saved, none lost? What 
a happy theme! Happy, happy, thrice happy to know that 
father, mother, brother and sister, are all housed in glory with 
Father and Son. 

Tins embraces the doctrine that before the closing of the clay 
of Adam and Eve, all nations, tongues, and kindreds shall have 
and hold to one faith, one belief and one doctrine. In this the 
comforter exists. To feel, to know, without one doubt, we are 
all to be saved in the house of the Father. What greater com- 
fort could we ask for? What greater comfort could we obtain? 
This unlocks the secret of the birth. This draws aside the 



LESSON No. 1. 13 



misty veil and shows to the pilgrim the land to which he is 

rapidly traveling. 

There are secrets yet to be told, 
But none like the above to unfold ; 
So cherish this little book, 
It is written by one who foretold. 




CATECHISM. 



Question. Where was Adam created? 

Answer. In the Garden of Eden. 

Q. How was he looked upon by his Creator? 

A. As being lonely. 

Q. What did the Creator then do? 4 

A. He took a rib from his side. 

Q. What did he do with the rib? 

A. He formed woman. 

Q. What next did he do? 

A. He carried her to Adam. Adam said: "This is bone of 
my bone, flesh of my flesh. I will call her woman." Then she 
was given to Adam to be a helpmate. 

Q. What did this mean? 

A. That she was to be with him in all his labors; to con- 
sult with him; to assist him; nourish him, and to be a thorn 
in his side. 

Q. What did the Creator then do? 

A. He issued the first law that was ever given to man. 

(,). What was that law? 

A. It was a prohibition edict. 

Q. What did it pertain to? 

A. Eating. 

Q. Eating what? 

A. An apple. 






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Q. What was to be the result of disobedience? 

A. Death. 

Q. At what time? 

A. "In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die." 

Q. Was this imperative? 

A. It was. 

Q. What was the character of the death? 

A. Die to live no more. 

Q. Did Adam die? 

A. No, he lives. 

Q. How does he live? 

A. In the power of the germ. Adam begot children and 
they begot children, and so on to the present time; and the day 
of Adam lias not yet ended; nor will it end until the day of the 
great lire, when the words spoken, saying " There shall not one 
be left; yea, not one." Then Adam dies with his germ and his 
first day ends. Then the words of the Creator will be verified, 
saying, " The day you eat thereof you shall surely die." Be- 
tween this and the new birth will be a period of time. That 
time will stand still with man, for he will be mingling w r ith the 
water in the spirit. 

Q. What did the Creator then do? 

A. He said the earth should be cursed on their account. 

Q. What then was done? 

A. He took Adam and Eve to the east gate of the garden 
and said the earth should bring forth briars, brambles, thistles, 
and thorns. 

Q. Is this the case at this time? 

A. It is, beyond a doubt. 

Q. What then did He say to Adam? 



16 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

A. That he should go into the world and by the sweat of his 
brow eat his bread all the days of his life. 

Q. Does man have to labor for his bread at this time? 

A. He does, most assuredly. 

Q. What did He say to Eve? 

A. That she should go; be subject to her husband; travail 
in childbirth all the days of her life. 

Q. Is this true? 

A. It is. 

Q. Where did Adam and Eve go? 

A. They went out into the wilderness amidst the briars, 
brambles, thistles, and thorns. 

Q. What then did the Creator do? 

A. He looked around and said, " Here stands the Tree of 
Life; lest man puts forth his hand and partake of the fruit, I 
will place a naming sword around it, whose edge shall turn in 
all directions." 

Q. Did He do so? 

A. Yes. 

Q. Of what was the sword made? 

A. It was made of water and gas. The gas was fired and 
the water congealed ; hence the flames. 

Q. Where was it placed? 

A. Around the Garden of Eden, where the Tree of Life 
stands. 

Q. What, then, surrounds the Garden of Eden? 

A. Ice on the north and east; a fiery flame on the south 
and west. 

Q. Can man, by any means, reach the Garden of Eden? 

A. Yes. 

Q. How? 



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A. By being born again of Christ and the Spirit. 

Q. By what means is this to take place? 

A. Through the life-giving property of Christ, who pos- 
sesses the germ that will call all the flesh unto the body again. 

Q. How is this accomplished? 

A. Through evolution, passing from the body to the spirit 
and from the spirit to the body, as is the case at this time, 
though by the germ of Adam, which is wicked, having violated 
the prohibition law. 

Q. What do we pass through that we may be saved? 

A. Through a fiery furnace. 

Q. When does that take place < 

A. No man knoweth— not even the angels in heaven. It 
cometh like a thief at night, and that in the twinkling of an 
eye. 

Q. Will man know when he is born again? 

A. No. You will become as little children, for, of such is 
the kingdom of heaven. 

Q. Will he be taught to know? 

A. Yes. 

Q. How? 

A. From the mouth of two or three witnesses, who shall 
make all things known. 

Q. Who are those witnesses? 

A. Enoch, Elijah, and Eastland.* 

Q. Why particularize these men? 

A. Because they were taken up and carried to heaven in 
the flesh for that purpose. 

♦Eastland is a name given by the author to the third person spoken of for 
convenience sake. 



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Q. What is meant by the term " all things? " 

A. All events which transpired from the creation of Adam 
and Eve to the birth of man, through the germ of Christ. 
They will teach them where they were, what they were, and 
what they are at that time. 

( c ). What is a comforter? 

A. A comforter is knowledge gained or obtained from or 
through others. 2d. Light given upon any subject in which 
man is vitally concerned. 3d; Such as pertains to his future 
existence. 4th. To receive a revelation that shows him when 
and how the second birth takes place. These, and many other 
accounts of a similar character, will be a comfort to man on his 
journey through the wilderness of briars, brambles, thistles and 
thorns. Be of good faith, buckling on the armor of patience, 
love and charity — these combined — good will toward all man- 
kind, for the time will come when the second day will appear 
and its morning will be tilled with scenes of glory, when bright- 
ness of the Son and the smiles of the Father will till the im- 
mensity of space, and the prodigal son (man) shall bask serenely 
beneath those scenes with all the fullness of man's glory. Thus 
the wearied shall find rest and the disconsolate comfort. 

Q. What did Christ mean when he said, " If the blind 
lead the blind they shall all fall in the ditch? " 

A. A ditch is a way and was known at that time as a way 
through which water passed from its confined position to some 
other. The leaders being blind and the led also blind (being 
true of man), they would all fall into the ditch which would 
lead them into the clear waters of life. 

(<). How did the Creator separate the waters from the land, 
when the mighty dee]) covered the entire earth? 



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A. He did it by evaporating one portion of the water, 
thereby making it dry, and caused it to take space in the firma- 
ments. 

Q. Then what was the result? 

A. There was dry land and dry water, and when the land 
became thirsty He caused a condenser to come among the dry 
water, thereby causing it to return to its first state (a liquid 
form); then it fell to the earth and quenched its thirst, and 
thus the germ of the vegetable kingdom was made to germinate, 
send forth its petals, and gather from the firmaments its own 
peculiar substance, combined with its flavor, upon which all the 
animals were to subsist, thereby producing decomposition and 
evaporation and returning to its place in the great store-house 
of the Creator to be again gathered into the native body and 
again to pass to the store-house, and so on during Adam's day. 
Thus we declare evolution in the vegetable kingdom as well as 
the liquid. From this we pass to the mineral. In this we 
class all things except vegetable and animal, the two first being- 
inanimate and the latter animate. 

Q. What is mineral? 

A. It is a substance that lies dormant in the earth until 
brought into use by man, but created by the Creator for man's 
benefit, to be used by him in his labors for his bread. When 
brought into use it meets with its decomposer and again returns 
to the earth, its store-house, or the store-house of the Creator. 
It is thus used over and over, like the water, and lives and 
moves in evolution and will continue so to do during the day of 
Adam.* Considering animal, or animate matter, which we 

*Note. — Further explanation could be given by entering into separate de- 
tails, but we deem this sufficient in this place and leave it for searching minds 
to look after. 



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classify as being more closely allied to the Creator, especially 
man. This being the case does not acqnit him of his vicious 
temperament and desire to do wrong, and should teach him to 
hold a greater curb upon his actions while in the body. When 
in the dormant state and before decomposition, he is in Para- 
dise, where Christ said the thief should be on crucifixion day. 
This was to teach that Christ has the power and would forgive 
all sins. There was not a bone broken in His body, as much as 
to say that all shall be gathered into the Garden of Eden, with- 
out a missing link, for His body was given as a ransom for all 
men. Returning to the animal portion of creation: all animals 
are composed of flesh and bone, drawn together through the 
powers of its own separate germs (here Darwin is set at naught). 
All animals, except those of the same family, have their sepa- 
rate and distinct property as well as flavor. The saccharine can- 
not gather the acid nor the acid the saccharine. They are sep- 
arate though they may grow upon the same stock. For example, 
the apple. Take a branch from a tree bearing a sweet apple; 
graft it into a tree bearing a sour apple and your limb will 
bring forth the sweet apple. This teaches that it is through 
the germs and that the germ is fed from the firmament and can 
draw nothing except its own specific flavor. That which is 
true of the vegetable kingdom is also true of the animal. 
Hence there is a particular line of animals that partake of the 
food of man and that is the only kind that he should eat. This 
teaches that the animal and vegetable kingdoms live one upon 
the other, hence evolution to separate them and bring them 
hack to their perfect state, as inaugurated by the Creator. Mere 
we will state that all animals, both large and small, have a 
Language peculiar to themselves, by which they communicate 
with others of the same family. 



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Q. Which way has the empire of nations moved? 

A. They have moved from the east to the west. Man is 
seeking to find his way back to the Garden by the west gate — 
just opposite to where he went out — and there, we predict, lie 
will find the gate through which he may enter, it first having 
been opened by Christ. Will it not be a great comfort to man 
when he arrives at the gate and sees it thrown operand hears 
the glad bidding: tk Enter into the kingdom which was prepared 
for. you when the foundations were first laid.'' 

Q. How were the Children of Israel, led to the Land of 
Canaan, typical of our travels, amidst the briars, brambles, 
thistles, and thorns? 

A. They were led from darkness into light. We are to be 
led from death even unto life eternal. The weak, the weary, 
are all to be brought up — not. one to be left — yea, not one. All 
shall go in and be redeemed through the powers of the Lamb, 
that gave himself for a ransom. 

Q. Do you know the seven pointers? 

A. I do. 

Q. Give a description of them. 

A. They are composed of a group of seven stars, all of the 
same magnitude, with one very small star added, arranged in 
form so as to mark out the lines of a dipper. Running the eye 
from one star to the other, it forms the handle and bowl of the 
dipper. 

Q. Do you know the north star? If not, I will teach you. 
Commence at the two stars in the end of the bowl from the 
handle; look to the right, when the dipper is in the west, about 
one hundred yards, and you will find a star of the same magni- 
tude as those of the dipper. This is the north star. It is said 
to be a fixed star, with a direct north bearing from where we 



22 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



stand — let that be where it may upon the earth. Add this, and 
it makes a group of eight stars, representing as follows: The 
Creator, Christ, the Holy Spirit — three in one line. The next 
two represent Enoch and Elijah, the two persons taken up and 
carried over the icebergs to the G-arden of Eden. The first 
from the bowl of the dipper represents Eastland (so-called), or 
the third person. Kastland is yet outside of the circle of the 
garden. Then conies Eve, with a small star by her side. Then 
comes Adam, the last star in the handle of the dipper. The 
last three are yet outside of the garden, as are Eastland, Eve 
and Adam, and are wheeling around the garden once every 
twenty- four hours, looking for the gate to enter. Thus we are 
led to think that the seven pointers evolute around the Creator 
and circumscribe the garden, which is protected by the naming 
sword of ice on the north and east and the great evaporating 
tire on the south and west. By the fire the sword is complete, 
by which water is caused to evolute, gas is caused to evolute, 
vegetable and mineral matter caused to evolute, and so does man. 
Prom the spirit to the body, from the body to the spirit. 

Q. What does the north star represent? 

A. The Creator. 

(}. Why do you say Creator? 

A . Because you cannot form an oath upon that name. 

(»). What does the first star to the right of the north star 
represent? 

A. Christ, seated on the throne with the Father. 

Q. What does the next one represent? 

A. The Holy Spirit the Trinity, three in one line — or 
Godhead. 

<<). What do the other two in the bow] of the dipper, rep* 
resent \ 



CATECHISM. 



A. Enoch and Elijah, who were taken to the garden many 
years before this. 

Q. What is the next one? 

A. It is supposed to be Eastland, who is to betaken as were 
Enoch and Elijah, and for the same purpose. 

Q. What were they taken for? 

A. To fulfill the Scriptures when it said, " Out of the mouth 
of two or three witnesses all things shall be substantiated." 

Q. Why does it say two positively, and the third implied? 

A. Because the third one had not been born at that time. 

Q. Why were the three taken from earth? 

A. So that they could speak of all things, of their own 
knowledge, pertaining to man and the creation, as w T ell as the 
new birth. 

Q. When is this testimony to be taken? 

A. After the new birth takes place. 

Q. When is the new birth to take place? 

A. After the great fire in which Adam dies. 

Q. Who is to produce the new birth? 

A. Christ. 

Q. From what does he draw the body? 

A. From the spirit. 

Q. In what is the spirit to exist? 

A. In the water (dry form). 

Q. What part of man is lost in the renovating lire? 

A. The germ. 

Q. From whom will be the germ of the new birth? 

A. Christ, whose germ is not contaminated by disobedience, 

Q. Is all mankind to be saved? 



24 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

A. Yes. As all flesh passes into the spirit, all flesh will be 
redeemed through Christ, thereby being made holy, and will be 
presented to the Father for acceptance. 

Q. What of our sins here on earth? 

A. We suffer the penalty here on earth. 

Q. Did the Creator require anything further of Adam ex- 
cept to go and by the sweat of his brow eat his bread all the 
days of his life? 

A He did not. 

Q. Does Adam fulfill that injunction? 

A- He does, for he cannot get it in any other way. 

Q. Do you think man would go to the garden, if it were 
not for the sword? 

A. He has made attempts to do so. 

Q. By whom was Christ crucified? 

A. By the Jews. 

Q. How long did darkness pervade at the time of the cru- 
cifixion ? 

A. From 6 until 9 (three hours). 

Q. What happened to the temple at that time? 

A. It was rent from top to bottom. 

Q. Who was crucified with Christ? 

A. Two thieves. 

Q. Did either of them speak to Christ at that time? 

A. Yes. One of them asked him for remembrance. 

Q. What was the answer? 

i 

A. This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 

Q. According to this answer, where is paradise? 
A. Paradise is the state in which man exists after death and 
before decomposition. In this state he is free from sin and 



CATECHISM. 25 



sorrow, of this or any other world. Thus he lays for a time 
dormant. 

Q. Then what follows? 

A. Decomposition. In this act we are transferred to the 
spirit and pass to the firmaments, or storehouse of the Creator. 

Q. How long do we remain in the spirit? 

A. I T ntii a germ is planted. Then the spirit passes to this 
germ and thereby gives flesh, blood, bone and mind, which 
make up the new body, and thus we will continue to evolute 
until the death of Adam's germ, which is the day of his death — 
so spoken by the Creator. 

Q. Can man's body be kept in the tomb? 

A. Xo. Decomposition reaches the liesh, thereby changing 
its form. 

Q. From whence does the vegetable receive its substance? 

A. In the beginning, the Creator created all the matter that 
compasses the different kinds of vegetables and placed it in the 
firmaments, in the spirit form. Then he created trees, shrubs 
and bushes, and gave them their germ with affinity to gather 
this matter, with their own specific flavor, into the body and 
thus made it to suit the taste of man, so that when he sent man 
into the world to labor for his food, through this method, he 
could obtain the necessaries of life, and, as it was drawn from 
the storehouse it was made to return again, just as we gather 
our corn, fill our cribs, draw it out to feed ourselves and our 
animals. By our labors, we return it to the crib the next sea- 
son, and by this method of evolution the cribs 'can continue to 
be filled nntil the death of Adam. Then a new order of things 
will be inaugurated, and man w T ill then cease to labor and will 
continue to be fed from the storehouse of the Creator. 

Q. Is there any analogy between this answer and the waters? 



26 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

A. Yes. The waters are changed in the same manner and 
return to earth for the purpose of watering its dry surface, as 
well as the animal kingdom. 

Q. Why do you call it the animal kingdom? 

A. We class all in four kingdoms. 

Q. Name them. 

A. Water, vegetable, mineral and animal — these are classed 
in two orders — the body form of solidity, and the spirit form, 
without solidity. 

Q. Which form is best adapted to man? 

A. Both forms, as they both serve his wants. 

Q. Is man sufficiently thankful for this blessing? 

A. He cannot be, from our standpoint, but he should give 
all the thanks in his power so to give. 

Q. What does the Creator require of him? 

A. He requires obedience to the law. 

Q. Can you give the law as laid down? 

A. It requires almost a life-time to give the law, but it can 
be summed up in these words: " Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you." If you do this well, you will fill the 
measure until redemption comes. 

Q. Who was the strongest man? 

A. Samson. 

Q. How did he obtain his great strength? 

A. Through his hair. 

Q. What passed through his hair to give him his great 
strength? 

A. Electric fluid. It entered through the hair to the body 
giving great power to the sinews and muscles. 

Q. Do all men and animals obtain their strength in this 
way? 



CATECHISM. 27 



A. They do. We take the cat and horse to illustrate. A 
cat's hair contains more electricity than any domestic animal, as 
it will >how by stroking the hand over its back in the dark. 
The electric sparks show themselves in great profusion, hence 
we are constrained to say the cat is the quickest of all animals, 
possessing great strength, according to its size. 

Now for the horse. His hair is tilled with electricity which, 
as the rat's, view his strength and agility and see the tire of the 
eye when excited. I will state much electricity is passed in the 
body. Thus the body becomes the reservoir of electricity; the 
more it contains the greater the power. 80 I say electricity is, 
like the waters, never still unless confined, and that cannot be 
of long duration. It will come forth and return to the store- 
house of its Creator, as do all other things pertaining thereto. 
This teaches evolution. Here I will make a statement to show 
how easy it is for such as do not have the true light to be mis- 
lead or deceived. In 1852 I was selling goods at Tazewell 
C. H., \ a. One Sunday two men of color (black) called and 
asked me to sell them some goods. T agreed to do so. as they 
were slaves and had no time of their own to come during the 
week. The store was closed up and, of course, was Aery dark 
inside, I entered, the two men following. Having a box of 
matches and a candle placed on the counter, I closed the door so 
that the pedestrians outside could not see what was going on in- 
side. The matches were in a round wooden box, which T picked 
up, removed the top, taking out a match, striking it on the bot- 
tom of the box, thus igniting the match to light the tallow 
candle which we used in that day. One man said to the other, 
" Did you see that? " •' See what? " " That man knock the 
fire out of that box." •' Yes, I saw it, and am much amazed 
at it. It was wonderful." Now, I had it in my power 



28 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



to deceive those men had I wished to have done so. They 
inquired about it. I showed them the true light. They 
bought a box each and the other goods as far as they had 
money to buy, and went their way rejoicing. They were 
servants of one Westly Bowling. I mention this merely to 
show how easy it is for the blind to be misled, and well did 
Christ know this when on earth, and knowledge is to be their 
comforter. 

I have said the Creator does not create us, as Adam and Eve 
obtained the power by violating the law of the Holy Spirit. 
Thus we are left to our own action in this wilderness, but Christ, 
our brother, having great sympathy for us, marked out a plan 
of redemption to which w T e are constantly moving, too. Oh, 
what a comfort to look forward to that day when the lire is to 
free us from the sin of Adam and Eve, and pass our bodies to 
Christ to be born in the New Jerusalem, to dwell therein for- 
ever, free from sin, free from thorns, free from briars, free from 
brambles, free from thistles, free from toil, free from wars, free 
from strife, free from wearied limbs, free from sin that brought 
us out, free, then, with words of praise for our brother who 
brought us in. 



THE END OF TIME. 



A Vision of Wonders. 



In my vision, I started from a level plain and passed through 
all the verdure of life. I walked in a straight and narrow path 
and saw and beheld all the loveliness of creation as it appeared 
from the space in which I walked, for beneath my feet was the 
earth and above me was all nature's work — one vast river of all 
the material necessary to form the world, floating along in a 
calm and quiet manner. I saw the seed as they fell upon the 
ground, they possessing a small germ which seemed to take life 
and come forth in the most delicate form. Had I set my foot 
out of the path, it would have crushed its most fragile beauty. 
I passed them by and moved on. 

Just in front of me I spied a growing hill. Its base was 
round, its surface was flat and about twenty-seven feet in cir- 
cumference. It was divided into four quarters by distinct lines, 
the lines running from the centre pole, which was one foot in 
diameter and agreed in color with the four lines, which were 
white, red, yellow and black. These lines were slightly raised 
above the surface upon which I walked. When I reached the 
top of the hill — which seemed to be rising very rapidly — the 
twelve-inch centre, when I approached it, raised up twenty 
inches above the surface of the hill, upon which I seated myself 
and commenced my observations. I looked out along the white 
line, which then, or at that moment, pointed due north. My 



30 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT 



eyes passed over an immense plain or field of perfectly level 
land. I saw gardens of trees loaded with fruit of all sizes and 
of gorgeous hues, very inviting to the appetite. Amid those 
trees I saw all kinds of roses perched upon delicate stems — 
shoots from the parent stock. There was the Avhite rose, fully 
twelve inches in circumference; the red rose, the pink, the violet 
color; also a sky-blue, the crimson, which had all the different 
colors in it. From these went out a stream of fragrance that 
was odoriferous beyond description. Then there appeared the 
lilies of the valley, and leaning over them was Solomon, the 
wise, saying: " Ye toil not, labor not, yet ye are gorgeous." 

The dial made one move; the white pointed to the east and 
the red to the north, and as my eyes continued looking to the 
north a new scene was presented. As I cast my eyes down, 1 
readily saw that the mound had grown to a height of five miles 
and was slowly rising in the scale of altitude which stood before 
my eyes. Then I looked north again to behold the scene that 
was to be presented. It was rapturous to the mind. The gor- 
geous flowers had passed away, the trees with their fruit were 
out of sight and the eyes had to rest upon the scene as it was. 
I saw the waters of the mighty deep boiling and tumbling, 
rushing to the right and then to the left. Then they seemed to 
dive down as if to hide their presence from the sight. Then 
they surged again, and seemed to rise up on a level with me 
and disappear in the firmaments. This motion opened a vacuum 
and the eye penetrated far below and beheld a flaming fire that 
was sending the water high in the firmament. T looked at the 
indicator and it marked a height of one thousand five hundred 
and fifty miles. 

Again looking, there stood one clothed in scarlet and having 
Jn his hand a rod upon which there were figures which I could 



THE END OF TIME. 31 



not read, owing to the extended enumeration. He raised the 
rod above his head and smote the firmaments, and the water 
gathered together and spread out and went in all directions. I 
said to the man dressed in scarlet. "What does this mean?" He 
was so busy figuring upon his staff, he made me no reply for 
the space of ten minutes. Then he rested his rod upon the 
substance he stood upon, looked up at me with a smile and said: 
" How came you here?" Quickly I said: " I cannot tell you. 
I am passing this way. and that is all I can say." His rod 
moved above his head and I cast my eye upon the indicator. 
It showed an altitude of six thousand miles. 

I cast my eye around, for I was still seated upon my tube, 
twelve inches in diameter, and I had not yet learned upon what 
principle I was being carried up. though my tower stood as firm 
and steady as when I first ascended to its summit. So I looked 
down along the line of red marks and beheld the face of a 
mighty fire whose flames reached higher than my seat, its base 
being water. It made no smoke, looked bright like the sun, 
but was shrouded with a silver appearance. 

I again spoke to the man clad in scarlet, with his rod resting 
at his feet. He looked at me and spoke, saying: "I now have 
time to explain to you, and will take much pleasure in doing so. 
I have been here over six thousand years, and you are the first 
person that has come this Way that dared to speak to me. 
When you first spoke the time was not out, so I could not 
answer you. My motion is now equal to yours, and we will 
travel a long distance together, and can speak of many things 
of great interest to man, of whom you are. I could not talk to 
you until you were six thousand miles from the garden you saw 
when you first started out — your indicator teaches you that, 



32 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



which is correct — and as we are out of hearing of all below, 
we can speak of what has been done and what is to be done." 

Here I looked at the indicator. It marked eight thousand. 
All was steady and firm. It now seemed to stand still and J 
cast my eyes around and, behold, the man dressed in scarlet was 
many miles below me, so far that we could not speak to each 
other. He raised his rod, then moved it over his head, and he 
was immediately upon a level with me. He again spoke to me 
and said, " one diurnal evolution had passed and he had stopped 
to register it and arrange for the change." He said, "three 
thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years had passed and 
the four thousandth year had commenced, in which there would 
be great changes made.'" 

My dial had now changed. The white line pointed south, the 
red one east, the black one north, which indicated that darkness 
hung over the universe. As we now had a full year to talk, we 
conversed freely upon all subjects. I was very anxious to un- 
derstand my indicator, so I asked many questions about it. 
The white was pointing south, the red east, the black north. I 
learned that the dial had to make two more turns before he 
could explain to me the true purpose of the instrument, and for 
this I would have to wait two epochs more. I was resting easy 
and soliloquizing upon the future, and did not know which way 
I was going, when my eye dropped upon the indicator and it 
marked thus : 150732108765432106543210543210432103210- 
2101010506030208010789. 

I cast a wistful eye for the man clad in scarlet. He was not 
to be seen. In looking up and down, I saw the sun, moon and 
innumerable stars, all shining in gorgeous array, thousands of 
miles beneath my seat. I wondered over the beauty of that 
galaxy, or group, of amazing lustre. I thought I had been 



THE END OF TIME. « 33 



carried to the seventh heaven, for it was a glorious scene, and if 
a man had his pen dipped in the etherial skies he could not 
paint its glory to the eyes, nor tell by language the beauties 
there displayed. He would have to drop his pen in utter de- 
spair beneath the weakness of surprise. 

We then viewed the pedestal upon which we sat. It was 
just twelve inches in diameter and stood without a tremor. The 
dial I saw nothing more of. I turned myself around and looked 
beneath my feet for it, but it could not be found. My twelve- 
inch seat had assumed a height of ten thousand miles above 
what was shown at the last indication. This was shown by a 
new indicator to be ten thousand miles above the old one, and 
if I was to go any higher the indicator said not. I was satis- 
fied I was at the end of my journey, and began to look after 
the shaft upon which I had ascended so high. I found it was 
hollow and formed exactly like a bee's cell, only it was perpen- 
dicular. 

I moved myself a fraction to one side and peered into the 
cavity, and to my great surprise saw a four-legged animal coming 
up the inside. It pushed its head against me, raising me four 
feet from my seat. I then became rixed upon the back of the 
four-footed beast. It then stretched forth four wings, leav- 
ing a space of two feet in the center. I sat in this space. The 
wings moved and so did we. Its head was set north and it 
moved directly toward the north star, it being thousands of miles 
above all other stars. My carrier made but a short tour when 
it began a circuit, and around it went, making four revolutions, 
when it returned to the main stand, immediately entered and 
sank down, leaving me sitting in my old position. 

On my tour round the stand I saw the icebergs piled many 
miles high. The beast spoke and said: "This is a part of the 



34 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



flaming sword, which acts as a fence, preventing Adam from 
doing like the naughty boys at the neighbor's orchards — climb 
in and steal the fruit." This fence, he said, was so high and so 
chilly that man could not climb over it. Adam and all his 
boys had to stay out and work for their bread. On the other 
side, I saw a great lire whose flames reached half way up to 
where we were, and sending its light far above us. 

Upon the second circuit I saw the Creator sitting upon His 
throne. Upon the third, I saw Christ sitting at the right of 
the Father, and upon the fourth, I saw the Holy Spirit at the 
right hand of Christ. I saw Enoch and Elijah and an empty 
chair. This chair was for Eastland, but he had not yet arrived. 
I saw the tree of life. The beauties of the garden, tongue can- 
not describe. 

I now sat h'rmly upon my honey-comb tube, and felt that it 
had begun to descend. A cold and chilly sensation came over 
me and I fell into a sleep, and when I awoke to my dream I 
was at the dial first mention nd. Looking at it, I found it just 
as I left it — the white stripe pointing south. While I was 
soliloquizing, it made another turn and stopped with the white 
pointing north, and soon it made another move and left the 
white stripe south. It had now made one revolution. 

I then I cast my eyes upon the earth and, lo, I saw a fire that 
burned all over the earth, as well as the waters. The flames 
were terrific and ascended many miles above the earth. Soon 
I saw the waters were all dried up; the mighty deep had disap- 
peared. I saw the mountains crumbling down; the rocks had 
disappeared; the hills had sunk into the ocean beds. The base 
of my tower was crumbling down and I feared that it would 
tilt over. 



THE END OF TIME. 



At this juncture the man clad in scarlet with the rod in his 
hand, stepped forward and placed his rod against it and said, 
M Fear not, it is now safe/' I asked, " What does this mean? ni 
He answered, ''It is the end of time. Adam died to-day and 
there is not a living creature upon the earth, in or out of the 
waters.'' I said, " There is the earth ; I see nothing upon it; it 
is barren, though all level; the ocean beds are tilled up and I 
see not a hole or a sink; it looks like a garden just spaded up." 
He further said, " It means the rebuilding of the new Jerusa- 
lem, which would take place ere many weeks." I said, " Where 
are the men to build it?" He answered not; I looked again 
and saw six men clad in lilly white, walking upon the earth, 
and he said, "Behold?" and I again saw them. They walked 
steadfast, viewing the earth. They passed from the north to 
the south, and then turned to the west and said, " This was the 
broad road that lead to death." "Yes," said Christ, "this is 
the ditch the blind that led the blind fell in all together. This 
they had to do to pass through the gate, after death, to life 
eternal. There is not a vestige to be found, the work is com- 
plete," said Christ to the Father. He said this without a sor- 
row, for he knew redemption was close at hand. 

1 now viewed the scene with sorrow and spoke to the man 
clad in scarlet. "Be of good cheer,' he said, "fear not, our 
time will come; there is one cavity of gas not yet ignited." 

Then 1 looked at my tower and saw that it was built of as- 
bestos and could not take fire. Then I saw the scarlet dress 
covered the body of Eastland, and he assured me I would be 
cared for, and then he said, " Remember, it is said the last shall 
be first," and then I understood and felt happy. 

Then I looked for the garden which I had seen in the begin- 
ning and there were the trees laden with fruit, I cannot say of 



36 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



what flavor. The trees were tall, like unto a cocoanut tree, the 
fruit was larger than a cocoanut and looked as if mixed with 
pure honey. All was quiet. I viewed the landscape over and 
feasted my eyes as 1 had never done before. 

I now felt the change was nigh at hand and I looked for the 
man clad in scarlet. He approached my tower slowly and sadly. 
By this, I saw the time had come for the last to pass, for well 
did I know I was of the Adam race and there was to be not one 
left. I closed my eyes and darkness surrounded me. The man 
said, " The last shall be first," lifted up his rod, the gas ignited 
in the asbestos tube and I dropped in. All was silent. One 
dreadful hour passed, and I was in the spirit and the water. 
Christ appeared at this moment, and I was again born of the 
spirit and the water and Christ, free from the germ of Adam. 

So I was the last and the first. Enoch, Elijah and Eastland 
cared for me for a few brief days until I had my understanding. 
They told me I was the last and the first. I waxed strong and 
walked through the garden looking for my brethren. 1 looked 
west, and behold, T saw a multitude coming that no man could 
number. They soon landed and there was a mighty concourse. 
All had been born again and were now in the New Jerusalem 
and were brothers, every one to another. 

And T beheld the tower go up again, and upon its four 
branches stood Enoch, Elijah, Eastland and the First and the 
Last, and the three spoke and told all things. Then the First 
and the Last clapped his hands and the multitude did likewise, 
and the motion of the feet was like unto a great rush of the 
waters. The multitude turned around and the tube lowered and 
again we were amid the happy throng and all spake and said we 
are all here. Then there went up a mighty shout from the host 



THE END OF TIME. 37 

and they clapped their hands four times. Christ smiled, and 
so did the substantiators. 

The First and Last looked upon his dial. The black had dis- 
appeared and the colors were all of a golden hue trimmed with 
lily white. It spun around with great rapidity and each point, 
as it passed the north star hung a gorgeous dress upon smooth 
rods which ran out in all directions, and all the brothers clad 
themselves and walked about the garden gathering and eating 
the fruits, and each one bore in his hand a boquet of flowers 
more beautiful than language can express. These were heaped 
at the feet of the Savior, each saying, " This is our gift." The 
Savior bowed and smiled and reached out His hand as a token of 
welcome. 

This was the first garden, in which our childhood was spent. 
Then we passed on to the second garden, which is called heaven, 
where boyhood is spent. It is far more gorgeous than the first. 
The trees were of a far more transcendant hue, the fruits of a 
much higher flavor and richer — suited to the strength of the 
youth. The flowers were much more brilliant, yielding a per- 
fume beyond description. Again appeared the indicator that 
gives the beauty and strength in figures. It required ten figures 
to give an idea here. 

In this garden we spent a space of time and we were given a 
much more gorgeous dress than the one we wore before, and all 
were happy as the indicator showed. 

The dial again moved and passed us to another gate. This is 
youth's garden. The eye was amazed at the canopy of this 
garden. It was festooned with all the beauties of the Father- 
land — gorgeous does not convey any idea of the decorations. 
The indicator here marked one hundred and whirled majestically 
upon its axis. We basked here beneath a bower of roses and 



38 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

feasted upon fruit of a silver hue. We drank nectarine from 
the tubes of the honeysuckle and walked in the groves of pinks, 
the fragrance of which the reader can have no conception, there- 
fore the idea conveyed is very weak. 

We have now made the third step and the indicator moved 
up and pointed to the fourth gate. We moved on in greater 
strength than before. Here we readied maturity and when 
arrayed for this garden we will be fitted to wander to the fifth, 
sixth and seventh. 

This garden I cannot do justice to, so I will leave all to the 
indicator. It registers one hundred thousand. From this you 
may gather some idea of what it is. The indicator in the fifth 
marked one million; in the sixth, it marked one hundred quad- 
rillions; in the seventh it marked the same scale as it did on 
my height, of which the following are the figures: 150732- 
1087654321()f)54B21()54321054321082102105060eS02()80107Sl). 
Ye mathematicians numerate it and tell how much and at what 
height I was, for it may be you will never rise so high as the 
P'irst and the Last did, but you will pass through the gardens, 
not cultivated by hands, from the first to the seventh, and that 
should be sufficient to make you happy and cause you to walk 
in the straight road that your sorrow may be less amid the 
briars, brambles, thistles and thorns, for you are now in the 
wilderness, groping your way to the broad gate that leads to 
death. This has reference to the death of Adam and Eve, which 
must take place as they committed the unpardonable sin which 
cannot be forgiven. 



WHAT IS TAUGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGED. 



1. Honesty and purity of mind. 

2. Live free from all stains of character. 

3. We acknowledge Christ as the true source of power to 
bring the body of man into the presence of the Father. 

4. We acknowledge that without His aid we cannot reach 
the Father again. 

5. We further acknowledge that it is in Christ's power so 
to do. 

6. We do agree that the germ of Adam, from which we are 
produced or derive our being, must die. 

7. We acknowledge evolution in all things that were created 
for sinful man, and that the same was created for righteous man, 
but as man fell from his first estate it brought about evolution, 
and thus Christ was sent to reinstate all things, as well as to 
bring man to his first estate, thereby carrying out the original 
plan of the Creator — the same being styled redemption. The 
law for so doing is a fixed law, and it is given to Christ to exe- 
cute. These eighteen hundred years He has been pointing us to 
the way. We have been groping our way through darkness and 
must continue so to do until the blistering fire renews our 

spirits. 

Then let us rejoice as we march along, 
And sing the Savior's happy song. 

Much comfort is to be gained by keeping his precepts. 

8. We do agree that the rules laid down by Christ should 
be followed by all mankind, 



40 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



<>. They ask nothing hut obedience to the law, and that was 
all the father asked or wanted. 

10. But man, Oh, man, he did not give it. ]N T ow He asks 
you to look upon Him as the Kedeemer. 

What is the greatest comfort to man that could be given? 

It is to know that all mankind is to be saved in the New 
Jerusalem by being born of Christ; born of the Spirit, which is 
of the body of man after decomposition, dwelling in the firma- 
ment amid the water and all other matter in the spirit condi- 
tion or form. What greater comfort could come to man than 
to know that all his family will be housed in that house not 
made by hands, where the tree of life forever stands. Of man. 
He exacted nothing but obedience, and that was what Adam and 
Eve did not give, hence the journey through the cursed land 
amidst the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. Children, be- 
Avare of false prophets, for there be many in the broad road that 
leads to death. There will be many of you who will pass the 
wide gate. Then you will be guided by that just and true 
Spirit Who knows no sin. Having no evil to fear, He will lead 
His ransomed multitude to the Father and the tree of life. Here 
we will see and know that every atom of man's dust has been 
redeemed, save the germ that died with Adam in the tire. Well 
may it be called the renovating tire when it brings its legions 
into the house of the Father to dwell in unison. What a 'word 
is Unison. In a world where strife, sin and sorrow is not felt 
or known, comfort, comfort beyond the conception of mortal 
man who toils day after day for his bread, who has pains, who 
has sorrows, who has fears within and without — he that dwells 
amidst the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. There could 
not be greater comfort in this vale of sorrow. Here we 
haw separations; here we follow our fathers, mothers, sis- 



WHAT IS TAUGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGED. 41 



ters and brothers to the grave and see their bodies laid 
in the silent tomb, not to remain there you can with com- 
fort say, but they will soon rise in the spirit, from which 
they will return to earth to till another body, to operate another 
mind, to dwell among their kindred earning their bread. They 
are not like unto the lilies, for they toil not, spin not, yet they 
are clothed with the most beauteous hues of nature, although 
they stand upon the accursed earth and smile in man's faee. 

Shall we venture a description of the "New Jerusalem? It 
will be perfect, without a fault, from east to west, from north to 
south. There will be no tempestuous ocean to lash and beat its 
shores, no rocky mountains to ascend, no dark and lonely val- 
leys to pass, no gorges into whose depths the eye may fall, no 
tornadoes passing with their howling devastations, no heated and 
scorching siroccos to fear, no sandy deserts to cross, no howling 
winds or whistling trees to cast a shadow athwart the mind, 
no roaring of cannons nor sharp cracking of muskets to be 
heard, nor to feel the war-horse's hoof. The rolling drum, the 
shrill tife and the loud blast of the bugle will be heard no more. 
All will be still and tranquil. 




Showing How isaiah*s Vision of the 
New Jerusalem Can Be 
accomplished. 



The body and spirit and all things else are kept in motion by 
evolution, alternating from one to the other, constantly, like 
unto the water. 

When the renovating fire takes place, which will be the end 
of Adam's day, for then the germ of Adam ceases to live; then 
the rocks, all metal, mineral, vegetable and animal matter will 
be decomposed, evaporated, and enter the spirit land, or the 
firmaments, in the spirit form, and unless the Creator here in- 
terposed it would so remain, for all the germs of creation — cre- 
ated for man's benefit —would be lost, or cease to act, which 
will be at the death of Adam. 

Then the mighty deep will be dried up and the earth become 
the New Jerusalem. The earth will be new because it will be 
renovated. All the sinful stains of Adam and Eve will be re- 
moved. 

Here I will give a short explanation that the blind may see 
as well as comprehend: 

When the fire dries up all the waters, consumes all the gases, 
oils, etc., it will cease to burn, the same as it does in our fire- 
places and stoves, and will die out for want of matter to subsist 
upon. Then its opposite (cold) will cease to exist; the earth 
will produce nothing, for a space of time, but will be like unto 



ISAIAH'S VISION. 43 



a smouldering ash-bed; the sun will cease to shine, the stars 

will cluster closely around the Father and Son, waiting for the 

hour for the work to begin. 

Silence will reign victorious, 
O'er all that will be glorious. 

Waiting, waiting, waiting. The dry waters now stand still, 
tlif spheres move not; all are waiting, waiting, waiting. 

for what ? 

For the new creation — the new birth. The Son now arises 
and goes forth, letting his germs now out amidst the dry waters 
and the spirit, the new birth is immediately effected and the 
children begin to grow. Then the stars radiate from the Father 
and stand over the new births, and will give great welcome to 
the new estate. There will be no blind to seek their destruction 
by the stars; they will be led to the Father to receive the wel- 
come with great applause. Then Enoch, Elijah, and the third 
person spoken of in Holy Writ, will explain all things and lead 
them to the tree of life. 

During all this time, there has been no condensation of the 
other spiritual matter. The Father, well pleased with the work 
of forming the New Jerusalem, will now begin and carry it on 
through evolution. The gold and other metals will be formed 
in the sidewalks, the line stone will be converted into castles or 
mansions, in which there will be many rooms for the accoinmo 
dation of the inmates. There happiness will reign supreme, 
with the entire family complete. All will be fed upon the 
manna of heaven, not needing gold nor silver for exchange. 

We now speak to the man in the wilderness, amid the briars, 
brambles, thistles and thorns; u Be of good cheer, doino- unto 
others as you would that they should do unto you; commit no 
offense against the law. A greater offense cannot be committed 



44 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



than to refuse to earn your bread by honest labor." I here say 
to all, " Take up the cross and bear it with patience until re- 
demption comes." The fire we pass through is the representa- 
tive of hell, though its time of coming is only as the twinkling 
of an eye. We should rejoice at its approach and wait with 
patience its coming as we do for the true light. 

The devil is but the decomposing power, that goes up and 
down like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 




LESSON NO. 2, 



Man's Duty to Christ During His Travel in the Wilderness, Compared with Those 
of the Children of Israel on Their Exodus Through the Red Sea. 



Man was loved by the Father, who had formed him after His 
own image,, and looked upon him as an earthly father looks 
upon his son. The latter has a yearning for his son's welfare 
and future happiness; he toils under heavy labors for his good; 
he lies awake at night planning and pondering over the things 
of earth, in order to bring about a combination of circumstances 
that some ease or comfort may accrue to his sons. He will rise 
early in the morning and toil all the day that his son may have 
bread to eat. This is only a command given that he is obeying. 
Having violated the command, he willingly takes up the yoke 
and bears his burden to the end. 

For this we cannot give him praise, for it has become his 
bounden duty, having violated the first command. When he 
violates this command, misery and woe settled upon him and his 
misery is two-fold greater; hunger stares him in the face; the 
flaming sword cuts his liesh in the winter months and pierces it 
in the summer months with its burning effects. Thus he is 
harrassed, year in and year out, until his fire burns out and he 
falls an easy prey to the devil, who is traveling up and down, 
seeking whom he may devour, and he soon takes his place in 
the firmament, or spirit region, where he is wafted by the 
gentle breezes, or occasionally thrown into the whirlpool of a 



46 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

cyclone and hurried through space with all the fury of its ac- 
tion. Again, he calmly awaits the planting of the germ to 
which he is gently gathered and helps produce another creature, 
we hope not like unto the one spoken of. 

Have we told you what the devil is? It is the property which 
enters all created things, save the earth itself, and destroys the 
body of flesh, minerals, and vegetables. We will describe it as 
living in fire and rust, which decomposes all things and sends 
them to the spirit land. This shows evolution in all its forms, 
and also teaches that the body and mind is in transit to the 
New Jerusalem, which will be on this earth after it is purified 
by the fire and the spirit is born (of the flesh) in the spirit and 
water, which will be the result of the closing of Adam's day, 
and must take place before all things can be fulfilled, spoken of 
by the Creator — "And not one jot or tittle of his word shall 
pass away until all things are fulfilled." 

Then, man should look forward to this day as being fraught 
with more comfort and happiness than any of all other days 
allotted to him. This will be the crowning day of his glory, 
and well might he shout "Hallelujah! hallelujah to the Lamb," 
who brought him from chaos or outer darkness to the light of 
creation again. 

Yes, he should keep an eye at all times upon the second star 
in the great dipper which has its mouth turned in the garden 
as though it were in the act of dipping the last from amidst 
the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns and returning him to 
paradise. So let us murmur not as we tread the thistle down. 
Let us w T atch the dipper and ever long for the promised crown. 

Compare our journey with that of the children of Israel 
through the Red Sea, whose waters divided, permitting them to 
pass through to the opposite bank. There they sang, played 






LESSON No. 2. . 47 



the timbrel, danced and were happy, thrice happy. When they 
had crossed they were upon the same earth. They were sepa- 
rated from Egypt only by the waters which were in the liquid 
form. When we shall have passed through the liquid fire and 
shall have been reproduced by Christ, no tongue nor pen can 
but feebly one portion of the glories express. 

The children of Israel were happy on their way, though they 
had forty years in the wilderness to stay, and not a man save 
two, the land of Canaan to possess. At the termination of oui 
journey, all are to come in for an equal share of rest. Then 
let us with tenacity hang on to the handle of that dipper until 
the Xew Jerusalem be gained, for there the weary will find much 
rest amid the bowery shades of paradise, where the golden 
streets are made for our feet and the jasper walls for man's 
retreat. 

Gentle reader, could not we endure for ten thousand years 
more to reach that blissful, happy, shore and there dwell with 
Christ in unison forever more. Well might we cry aloud to 
the lamb for us given. The Creator fed the children of Israel 
upon manna, as he will feed us in the New Jerusalem. This 
manna was the flour existing in the firmament and was con- 
densed by his law and germ and was mixed with honey con- 
densed by the same power. Hence it was said to be sweet. 
It was made from pure flour which had been decomposed from 
the wheat which grew upon the land cultivated by Adam, reaped 
threshed and ground into flour from the grain, then decom- 
posed and returned to the Creator's store house. 

Thus we can clearly see how Adam had to earn his bread by 
the sweat of his brow. The Creator, though being the germ 
of the flour, could draw it into the lump form, mixed with pure 
honey, and it was, of course, a very nutritious dish, and well 



48 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT 



might the Israelite long for it all the days of his life. But it 
was not to be so, for they were to enter the land of Canaan and 
there cultivate as other Adamites did, and as they had done in 
Egypt, where corn was cribbed in houses made with hands and 
handed out for the gold and silver that it brought. 

So we are plodding along at this day — the blind leading the 
blind and they will all fall into the ditch, as Christ said when 
in our midst. 

Doubting creatures, have we not the Jews with us to-day— 
a wandering part of the world, without a home as a nation, liv- 
ing among the scattered nations, saying Christ has not yet 
come — doubting, doubting, doubting. 

The flood came and drowned all the antedelnvians, except 
Noah and his family, after which was given the promise that 
we shall be destroyed no more by water, but shall be by lire, at 
which time " There shall not be one left; yea, not one." This 
should be a welcome day to us for it is the last day of sorrow; 
it will be the last day of our toiling for bread; it will wind up 
the day of weeping; it will be the closing day of tribulation; 
the last day of our waiting, when all will be hushed in silence 
and man will rest from his labors. 



ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 



Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 

Forget not your promises to others. 

Do your mental reservations where they are just. 

Woman was not commanded to labor in the field. 

Man was commanded to tramp down the briars, brambles, 
thistles and thorns. 

Work while it is day; sleep at night. 

" Man, know thyself. 1 ' Blindness prevents him from so 
doing. 

Take up evolution and study it closely in all its movements. 
The principle will teach you what you are. 

Listen to the admonitions of the good. 

" There are none righteous." All mankind bears the sin of 
Adam. 

All pass through the fiery furnace. 

Think of the Hebrew Children. 

Eve was the first to violate the law. 

Christ was born of Mary; not of Adam's germ, but from the 
germ of the Creator. 

Bees do not make honey, they only gather it. Honey is con- 
densed after the order of water; is taken up by the flowers and 
shrubs belonging to the vegetable kingdom. 

Sugar forms honey when evaporated. Honey forms sugar 
when condensed and taken up by the vegetable. 



50 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



Iron is decomposed by rust, condensed near the surface of the 
earth. 

We burn gas and oil at night for light. The bowl of the 
lamp is emptied. We say the oil was burned up. It was only 
evaporated and went to the firmament, from which it is again 
reproduced into the oil which is ready for lighting us another 
night. 

All animals and insects communicate each with the other of 
the same family. 

Bees are provided with scissors with which to cut and trim 
up their work. 

Working bees are dwarfed in the ovary. 

The queen bee deposits the egg from which the worker bee is 
raised. 

A worker bee lives about sixty days after she goes to work. 

The worker bee sits over the eggs and thus they are hatched. 

They are sealed up in the cell to dwarf them in the dvary. 

Bees are faithful servants to man and should be provided 
with a house for which too much rent should not be claimed. 

Some seasons honey is scarce, then rent should not be de- 
manded. 

Water is a blessing to man, though it sometimes destroys 
life. Think, if there was none given, all lives would be lost. 

(toM is a fine metal given to man for exchange whilst in the 
wilderness. 

Fine rock is cut out by the cutter in such shape as may be 
wanted. In paradise it will be condensed in shape to suit man. 

Man in paradise will be without sin, Enoch and Elijah were 
born from the germ of the Creator which was without sin; 
thereby they were tit subjects for the New Jerusalem. 

The tree of life is protected by ice and fire. 



ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 51 

The earth is watered by the combined effects emanating from 
ice and water. 

Man is fearfully and wonderfully made. He bears upon his 
surface a wonderful condenser; internally a great evaporator. 
Thus he mores with force and precision. 

Man is like the wind — tempestuous at times. 

Dry water and the spirit move together, with great force, at 
times. We call the action " cyclone " — terrific it is. 

The children of Israel were fed on manna while in the wil- 
derness. Forty years thus they traveled, a distance of eighty 
miles; they toiled not. In Canaan they became the tillers of 
the soil, and thus they eat their bread as other Adamites. 

Without the true light you are blind. A ditch is the pas- 
sage way, in or out. The blind leading the blind, all fall in the 
ditch and pass in. 

Good thoughts beget good actions. Vice versa, bad. 

Eat when hungered. 

Drink when dry. 

Abstain from strong drink at all times. 

Children, never quarrel .and fight with each other. Your 
fingers were not made to tear the flesh of your brother. 

Rise early in the morning; work rather than play ; be cheerful 
and merry all the day, and thus pass your life away. Dance, 
whistle and sing songs while you stay. 

A sober and industrious man is a blessing to his family. 

A full storehouse of grain gives comfort. 

Plenty of corn makes fat horses. A fat hcrse plows the 
D-round with ease. 

A fat cow will give more and better milk than a poor cow. 

A well-fried chicken is a wholesome dish. 



£2 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



Eggs are called the fruit of the fowl. When fertilized, they 
produce young fowls. 

Wild, bad and dissipated boys are but little comfort to their 
mothers. 

Always let your good acts predominate; it will be a comfort 
to your mother. Mothers are very hopeful, and want to see 
their boys make good men. 

Life is short, at best. 

Hope is a great lever that will lift you up from the mire and 
clay. 

Feed the decrepid and sick; let the strong feed themselves. 

Gather wisdom from every flower. See their germs and 
petals, how they work. From their labors you eat the peach, 
the apple, pear and plum. 

A slothful man never enjoys a bountiful hand. 

Sow in time, reap in season, and you will not go hungry. 

Be guilty of no bad acts, and when you come to die you can 
die without remorse. 

Be not wicked and the wicked will not be with you. 

Contrast this world, with its briers, brambles, thistles and 
thorns, with the New Jerusalem with its golden streets, its 
walls of precious stones glittering like the sun at noonday, 

And see if on this briery bed of thorns you wish to stay, 
And wrestle with the devil a never ending, everlasting day. 

Why is man like a fleeting day? Soon he passes and is not 

here to stay. 

Go be a farmer, was a command to me given. 

Choice fruits grow in well-cultivated gardens. 

Garden vegetables are much relished at the table. 

Happy is the child that obeys its father and mother. 

FiRb is a favorite food of man. 



ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE IN BRIEF. 53 

Honey was much relished by Christ. 

Christ had not where to lay His head, yet the kingdom was 
His. 

The devil is deceitful and attacks yon when you least expect 
it. and at the weakest point. 

Look out for yourself; others will not look out for you. 

We do the will of our Father by obeying His laws. 

To be happy we must have contented minds. 

Look to others' comfort as well as to your own. 

Rejoice not at the downfall of anyone; give such a consoling 
word. 

Keep your shop or field, and your shop or field will keep you. 

Be not slothful in saving small things. 

Small streams make large rivers. 

A little dust gathered to the germ makes a large tree. 

Take care of all you have and all you have will take care of 
yon. 

Fancy feathers make fancy birds. 

(to to the spring without a murmur when the spring will not 
come to you. 

Flies are annoying as well as a great pest. They light on 
your nose and disturb your rest. 

Liars are not believed when they speak the truth. Cultivate 
truthful habits. 

Truth is mighty and wins the admiration of all good mothers, 
daughters, and youth. Think of this and declare in its favor. 



OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 



I will first speak of the sugar tree — a tree so named on ac- 
count of the sugar made from the water drawn from the tree. 

All trees feed through their leaves, therefore the leaf is the 
mouth of the tree and receives the nourishment necessary to the 
growth of the tree. All branches or limbs of trees grow in 
length from the extremity of the limb. The small branches, or 
shoots, upon the limbs feed the body of the limb and the limb 
feeds the trunk of the tree, and even the roots in the ground. 

The fork of a tree never grows any higher from the ground 
than it was when the fork was formed, except the expansion of 
the limb. This teaches us that the tree grows from the extrem- 
ity of the limb and feeds through the leaf. 

I will return to the sugar tree. The sugar tree is known by 
many as the maple tree. Of these there are two kinds, the 
black maple, which affords the best sugar made, and the white 
maple, so called from the bark being white with a smooth sur- 
face. It is not much sought after for its sugar qualities. The 
sugar made from this tree is fairer than that made from the 
black maple; at the same time, it turns coffee or tea black. In 
an early day, when the farmers had to make their own ink, they 
gathered the bark from this tree, boiled it in water for about 
fifteen minutes; then taking the bark out, some copperas was 
added and the fluid boiled to a consistency proper for ink, a 



OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 55 

little sugar being added to give it a gloss. With this ink the 
farmer kept his accounts, the daughters wrote to their lovers, 
and the more it was like a crow's feather in color the better 
it was liked. 

The shoemaker also sought it to make shoe pegs. It is val- 
uable for that purpose. 

The black maple from which the best sugar is made, is rep- 
resented in the picture of the sugar orchard. 

Little boys and girls think themselves well treated when they 
get a cake of tree sugar — then children should be really thank- 
ful and do good to all. 

I will now describe the method of producing sugar or sweet 
water. In the summer, while the leaves are young and tender, 
they are gathering from the firmaments the substance created 
and placed in the storehouse of the Creator (the firmaments) 
the matter which forms wood and thus produces a tree which 
is of great benefit to man. 

During this period honey is condensed, and, gathering upon 
the leaf, is taken in through the mouth or mouths of the leaf, 
passing into the wood substance of the tree that was designed 
by the Creator for this purpose. As its germs have no affinity 
for acid, the honey remains in the tree as saccharine, and is so 
brought forth early in the spring, before the new growth begins 
to form. 

The body of the tree is formed with very small orifices or 
vacuums running from the ground to the end of the limbs, 
which act as receivers of the honey, like unto the bee cell formed 
for that purpose in the hive. The wood substance or ligament, 
is six or eight times as large as the cell in the tree. It contains 
the fluid, or water, that is essential to get the saccharine from 
the tree. In the spring of the year it requires the action of one 



EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



part of the flaming sword to accomplish this. Hence we must 
have a freeze. Freezing the water in the tree causes the wood 
furnace to expand. When the thaw comes contraction takes 
place, leaving the water in the cell with the saccharine (or 
honey). Then Ave cut through the cells near the ground, and 
the water flows out, bringing the honey out with it. 

Then the farmer causes the water to be carried to the sugar 
camp (so called by the farmer). Here we find .cast-iron pots in 
which the water is placed. A fire of wood is kindled, the water 
commences to boil, tumbling and rolling over. By this heated 
process, the water is evaporated from the pot, leaving the sac- 
charine matter. The farmer dips this out, sets it aside in pails 
and pans until it cools and settles, leaving the sediment or 
earthy part at the bottom of the pan. He then drains it off 
into a sack, made for that purpose. This is suspended over a 
receptacle for the purpose of catching the syrup, for it is now 
called syrup. When it passes through the sack, it is - called 
straining. This process takes out all small particles of other 
substances, not wanted in the sugar — for we are now going to 
commence the process of making grained sugar. This is done 
by returning the syrup to the iron pot, beneath which the 
farmer's son kindles a Are and the process of boiling again 
commences. Skimming now becomes necessary to further 
purify the sugar. This being accomplished, the cooking pro- 
cess is continued until it is pronounced "done" by the judge, 
who is most frequently the farmer's wife. Then it is poured 
into a pan greased slightly with butter to cause the sugar to 
leave the sides and bottom of the pan when it is cool and hard. 

It is now ready for use and is often sold to merchants, thus 
becoming an article of merchandise as well as a great favorite 



OF TREES AND THEIR FORMATION. 



among the consumers. It is often made in small cakes that re- 
tail for tive cents a cake, of which children are very fond. 

Thus I complete the process of sugar-making from the tree. 
There are many other stalks and roots which gather honey and 
yield the same to man, after a certain process. All given for 
man, and yet he will not understand and moves on blindly. 
Fear not, children; the blind lead the blind and they will all 
fall in the ditch and be saved. After being born of Christ 
they will all have the same power that Christ has to condense 
the necessary food, or reach forth the hand and partake of the 
nectarine, drawing it from the store-house tilled by the Creator 
and kept for His children. 

How mean a father it is who does not keep his store- house 
full for his children. He loves his children and will labor with 
a prof used face to store bread for his offspring. 




FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS. 



Let us look to the broad gate that passes to death, for many 
there be that walk therein. 

The gateway herein mentioned is as wide as the universe that 
will rush its millions in through the fiery furnace of death, to 
take place at the closing day of Adam. Adam by this act loses 
his identity as well as his life in the germ. 

The narrow gate and the straight way that leads to life with 
few there be that find it, clearly has reference to Christ, Enoch, 
Elijah and Eastland. The latter one has not yet found the 
gate but will before the close of Adam's day. The word spoken 
will be ready to be fulfilled. Out of the mouths of two or 
three witnesses, all things shall be substantiated. These wit- 
nesses will testify to the children of Christ, born of the dry wa- 
ter and the spirit of man drawn from the firmaments through 
the power of the germ of Christ, by this act making it possible 
for the flesh and bone of man to return to the garden of Eden. 

This act shows that the germ of Adam is left behind and for- 
ever lost amidst the fiery furnace as Adam had committed the 
unpardonable sin for which he could not be permitted to re- 
turn to the presence of his Father. Christ redeems the flesh 
and carries it back with all the chattels given to man for his 
coin fort as he passes through the wilderness. It is a long and 
tedious journey amidst the briers, brambles, thistles and thorns. 



FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS. 59 

Added to this are his labors in sowing, cultivating, reaping, 
threshing and mixing his bread. ISTor was this all. He had 
to hew, chop, and saw in order to make houses in all directions. 
Then he had to spin and weave to protect his body from the 
cold wave as well as the scalding heat, The Creator gave him 
water to cool the dry and parched earth. He gave him seed to 
plant, that would gather the flour of bread from the firmaments 
in such a way that man could get that which was necessary to his 
life and comfort. 

Let us observe the motions of the earth. It revolves once 
every twenty- four hours, which gives day and night. Its an- 
nual motion is up and down, rising to its highest point in mid- 
winter and falling to its lowest point in mid-summer, varying 
from east to west, on a calm motion in order to pass the pro- 
pelling power at the center points. Thus the sun inclines from 
east to west. At the highest point the firmament is most com- 
pressed; at the lowest point it is most expanded by the heat 
which emanates greatly from the fire at the antipodes; vice 
versa, with the icebergs of the north and east. 

This I claim, shows evolution in every act and motion, and 
only by evolution can man be redeemed. 

TVe will again speak of the seven pointers, or the great dip- 
per. By its position, we see that it has been dipped into the 
outer world to bring man back to the garden. It revolves 
around the garden once every twenty-four hours, and thereby 
marks out the circumference of the garden. This is represent- 
ative of the Creator, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Enoch, Elijah and 
the third person spoken of, who stands yet outside of the 
circle. There stands woman next, with her small progeny by 
her side, and Adam last, thus completing the great dipper which 
is to land us in the glory land once more, safely housed from 



BO EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

the sorrow of this long travel in the wilderness where we have, 
through faith, worked out our pilgrimage amid the briers, 
brambles, thistles and thorns. 

Christ laid down the law so plainly that none can feign blind- 
ness when the word is made clear through knowledge gathered 
from evolution. 

So let us draw the veil from over' our eyes and see clearly 
our home in the New Jerusalem, eating bread, not made by our 
hands, living in houses not made by hands, walking on streets 
paved with gold, riding in chariots not moved by steam or rest- 
ing on iron rails, but which will glide swiftly through space at 
lightning speed from city to city. 



BEE CULTURE. 



To be able to care for bees, it is far better to know something 
of their habits. To know their habits, you will do better to 
commence with the germ and thence grow up in your knowl- 
edge of the bee. 

We will commence with the fertilized bee — the only bee of 
the kind in the colony. A good, strong colony of bees should 
contain thirty thousand worker bees. One of that number 
must be raised differently from the others. She is known 
among bee men as the queen bee. She is hatched from the 
same kind of egg that the worker bee is hatched from, but is 
raised in a different cell. The worker bee builds all the cells in 
the hive. Hence they have to build a cell in which to raise a 
queen, or fertilized bee, or more strictly speaking, a bee to be 
fertilized. In order to do this, the worker bee builds a cell 
apart, at some convenient place in the hive, and attached to the 
honeycomb. The cell is built perpendicular, with the mouth of 
the cell hanging down. The upper part is built about half an 
inch long, tapering to a point from half way of the entire 
length of the cell. The lower half is made the same size of all 
the horizontal cells and is round. In this cell the worker bee 
takes a fresh laid egg and places it in the upper portion. The 
worker bees cluster over the cell, so as to keep it at what is 
known as " bee heat," which is said to be eighty degrees. In 
live days the egg hatches and sends forth the germ of a bee, 



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covered with bee mucilage. In this condition the germ com- 
mences to gather the bee flesh. In five more days, it about 
half fills the cell. The worker bee seals the cell with a very 
tough paper. The young bee continues to grow until the cell 
is full. The time required for the purpose is about eight days. 
The bee has now so matured that it has strength enough to use 
its scissors, and, cutting away the paper, conies forth a full- 
grown bee. In from three to five more days, the queen bee is 
ready for the necessary fertilization, which comes from the male 
bee, known as the drone. When this act is performed, the 
drone deposits in the ovary of the mother bee two spermathea 
sacks tied together by a small ligament, The male dies imme- 
diately. The mother bee returns to the hive, enters and is cared 
for and shielded from her deadly enemy — the other mother bee. 
If, perchance, they come together, the death of both bees will 
often be the result. They will not fight or sting anything else 
than a mother bee. Should it happen that they meet in a deadly 
fight and both are killed, the colonies will both die out in sixty 
days, as that is the lifetime of a bee. 

If all goes right the mother bee goes out, followed by a cer- 
tain portion of the bees in the hive. I once knew the old bees 
to go out and leave the young bees in possession of the hive. I 
will not say, for certain, that this is a general rule, as I have 
known the young mother bee to come out with the colony and 
go to the new home. I have known my bees to come out 
settle, and soon go back to the hive. When this is the case, 
you may be assured the mother bee could not fly, would fall 
near the mouth of the hive and crawl back, to wait for another 
day. They most frequently wait two days before trying it the 
second time, 



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This failure sometimes happens from a crumpled wing, which 
is caused in the cell in the hatching process. When this is the 
case you can, by going to the parent hive, find the mother bee 
on the ground. Be careful you do not set your foot upon her. 
If you find her, pick her up with care, for she is very easily 
hurt, and if hurt you will lose your colony. If you manage all 
right,, carry her to the hive and put her in, setting the hive 
close to the new colony. The worker bees will go in without 
any further attention. 

The worker bee is raised in a horizontal cell and is thereby 
dwarfed in the ovary. Thus they are enabled to carry a sack 
of honey from the field to the hive. The egg that produces 
the worker bee is the same as the egg from which the mother 
bee is produced. The mother bee can deposit from eighteen 
hundred to two thousand eggs per day, and has it at her will 
to deposit from either side of the ovary. The egg is not fer- 
tilized until it is deposited, or in the act of depositing it in the 
cell. So we can readily see that while the fertilizing matter 
conies from the male, the mother bee has it in her power to 
deposit from either side of the ovary, one side producing the 
worker and the other the male, or drone, who does not go to the 
field to work. His work is done by him as well as by any bee 
in the hive. He has no sting. (Here is where the female got 
in her work in the garden and stung the human family and 
caused the thousands to groan upon the earth.) The female bee 
has a powerful sting. 

The male bee always sounds the slogan, or march, for a new 
colony. He only lives about forty days, and this is the life 
allotted to him. The worker bee lives about sixty days. The 
mother bee lives from three to seven years. These calculations 



64 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



are based from the period of maturity, as the actual birth of the 
bee dates from the time when it cuts itself out from its cell. 

The moth does not kill bees. The mother bee dies, and the 
colony, having no means of perpetuation, dies out and then the 
miller deposits its eggs. They hatch in a few days and go to 
work in the hive, and when the owner sees no bees at work he 
looks in the hive, and with a great exclamation says, " These 
worms have killed my bees." So he goes blindly to work to 
build a hive that the moths cannot get into. Here we will give 
an illustration: If all the males of our race were dead, yea, 
not one living, what would become of the race? All would die 
out in less than sixty years. Then let a new race come into 
existence, knowing no more of us than to see our bones lying 
about our houses, and entering them should see spiders, bats 
and bugs all around, they would say, "Look! those insects have 
destroyed these people or this nation." If that were to take 
place, then Adam's day would end. It will take place when the 
great fire comes. 

When you go to hive your bees, smoke your hands and face 
with rags, then smoke your bees and they will rarely ever sting 
you. Bees will work in various kinds of houses. You must 
learn the best hive from experience. The house must stand up- 
right; a horizontal hive is not suitable for bees, nor is any house 
that is too large for thirty thousand. This is from the fact that 
they have to keep the house warm enough to hatch the eggs, 
and they will keep all the bees in the house in order to keep up 
the requisite heat. Then, there being no hands at work in the 
fields, the crop is lost, starvation comes and death follows. 

Do not charge your bees too much rent, late in the season, 
as they have no method of making honey and only gather it, as 



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you gather your crops, from the field. If you went to the field 
and there was no corn there, you would have to return empty- 
handed. 

Negligence to plow and plant begets this state of affairs. 
Honey is condensed from the firmaments. It is saccharine 
matter evaporated ; condensed in the flowers and on the leaves of 
the trees. Many trees yield no honey from the fact that their 
leaves drink the honey as soon as it reaches them. This is like 
many boys and girls who swallow down the honey as soon as it 
reaches their hands, and some eat until it makes them sick. The 
leaf that has a rough surface drinks in the honey. The leaf 
with a smooth surface on top retains the honey until the sun 
comes out and causes the honey to enter the leaf. So the bee 
has to be there very early in the morning to get any honey. 
Flowers retain it much longer than a leaf, from the fact that 
the sun does not penetrate the flower. 

Bees lying out in front of the hive are no indication of their 
wanting to swarm. They are bees that are nursing the young, 
and when they come out it shows that the bee heat is too great, 
and they leave the hive until wanted in the night, as it becomes 
cooler. They are like the blanket at the foot of the bed — to be 
drawn up when it becomes cooler. 

There are droughty years in honey. This is to the bees as a 
drought is to us. Our crib is empty on account of the drought 
— the bee hive is empty on account of the same thing — the bee 
having no power to make honey. So when a drought in honey 
comes, do not forget and demand more rent than your bees can 
stand to pay, and if they have none to spare, take none. With- 
out the bee to gather the honey, we would have none. Honey 
is the purest saccharine we can get. Christ was fond of honey 
and referred to it when speaking of his food. Christ was the 



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purest of man, free from the sting of woman. Having taken 
on mortality, he had to die in order to save the flesh of man. 
Now that is accomplished, we must wait with patience the 
return of Christ when we will born us of his germ, thereby 
making us fit subjects for the New Jerusalem, where we will 
not need bees to gather the honey, for it will be gathered by the 
Father and given to the sons of Christ. 

Oh, where will that sting be? It will be there as docile and 
meek as it was before it was removed from the side of Adam. 
It will be lovely and smiling in its place, seeking not to tempt 
man, but aiding to give him strong will power to live according 
to the law and obeying all prohibition edicts. This is all that 
man could ask; it is all that he could wish for; to be freed from 
the stino- of the briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. Then he 
will have the beautiful New Jerusalem to walk in and not a 
of i ig to fear from the briars, brambl :s, thistles and thorns. 




DEDICATION. 



It is common to write a preface to a book, small or large. I 
choose to do differently and dedicate this book to those into 
whose hands it may, by chance, fall. It is common to dedicate 
churches and other buildings for State purposes. It is also 
common to lay a corner stone and deposit coins, papers, etc., in 
a trough cut in the stone for that purpose. All this I leave 
undone and simply say, Reader, this book is written for you and 
its wonderful truths are for your comfort, as well as yonr bene- 
fit. Its errors are not for either. If you find any such, pass 
them by. I have no argument upon the subject. The book is 
dedicated to you and I leave it entirely with you as well as to 
all mankind. W. W. DUNN. 



THE MIND. 



This subject is the hardest of all subjects to write upon, as it 
is of such varied hue. In speaking of the mind, it must be 
done by comparison. We can conceive of no other method, 
hence there has been but little said upon the subject, only in 
the way of education ; that is, to cultivate the mind by imi- 
tating the acts of others. Students will .spend weeks, yes 
months, rehearsing what others have said or done. This is 
imitating our predecessors and is not working out our own 
problem. The work cut out by our problem is to take up our 
saw, hammer and square, and saw, square, and hammer together 
a box, or house, as our mind dictates to us, making it to please 
the mind of others. To do this necessitates the waste of much 
material and time, etc. Writing is after the same order, and if 
we commence to spin a thread as fine as the spider's web, and fail 
to bring the two ends together, man, seeing this, should take 
up the thread, tie on the weaver's knot, and continue the work 
until something is accomplished. It only required our Creator 
six days to create the world and the fullness thereof. It requires 
man thousands of days to gather the flour and other ingredients 
to make a cake which a few hungry children can eat in twenty 
minutes. 

Man's head is tilled with innumerable cells, some large and 
some small, hi these cells the light of man is gathered, and, 
as the cell is tilled, thus shines the light; and where a ray of 



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light goes out from those cells it must rest upon something, 
and then, like the little bee, when it has tilled its honey sack, 
returns to the hive and deposits its load in the cell. So 
should the ray of light return to the head and with great care 
deposit its gathering. Thus, year by year, the cells of the head 
should be filled, and it is very clearly illustrated in the case of 
the giving of the talents to man. Thus we show by this that 
the mind evolutes. It goes out and returns again, like unto 
Noah's dove when it left the ark. At- first it found no resting 
place for its feet and returned, a* much as to say the waters 
were not yet evaporated. The second time it went ont, it re- 
turned with an olive branch, as much as to say it had found the 
top of a tree. Noah knew it would not do to yet open the ark 
and turn the beasts out into the water. 

It must have been a very sad scene to Noah when he came 
out of the ark and saw that all the inhabitants of the world 
were gone — not one to be found. Then, I imagine, he turned 
himself to his family and sent out a ray of light which cen- 
tered upon his family, returning with this consolation to him: 
" Through you we will people the earth once more by bringing 
back that vast amount of human matter to the earth, once more 
to walk and talk, to think and see, and thus dwell until the great 
renovating fire comes, when there shall not be one left." Shall 
the scene be more sad then than it was with Noah? No; it 
cannot be as sad, for there are none left to witness it all. All 
have passed away. The mind has ceased to act and has become 
the spirit in the firmament. There it will calmly rest until the 
coming of Christ, when it will return again in childlike form. 
In this case there will be no sad scene to be commemorated — 
nothing known until the three witnesses come forth and tell us 
all things. 



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Mind is a matter we all possess in one degree or another. It 
was created by the Creator, as was the corn, grass, rocks, silver 
and gold, and was placed in the storehouse, with all other mat- 
ter, in the spirit form. Then He created the stalk, in which He 
placed the germ, which becomes the condenser, or collector of 
the spirit, bringing it into the body. Xext, the devil was 
created, which was to be the decomposer of the body, or rather, 
of all bodies. I will say the mind was created a spirit, which 
is not visible to the eye, until condensed in the stalk — which is 
man. Man, then, being the stalk possessing the germ, gathers 
the matter (mind) into the chambers destined for that purpose, 
from which man's knowledge must flow. It goes out like the 
waters from the spring, but often becomes like the waters of the 
river — -muddy. 

I will now return to the head of man, who carries this mind, 
and see if we can bring forth a ray of light. We have dark- 
ness, as well as light, and, as darkness predominates, we must 
bring light from darkness. So we must begin at the outside 
and work into the light — if the light we find. Follow me 
closely, that you may learn the facts of the mind. It is like 
evolution, or a ring. Round and round it goes to the begin- 
ning. As I have said that I would begin at the outside, then I 
will begin like the miner who digs for gold, passing through the 
outer case to the inner case, where the gold is found. 

Let us examine the head in which the gold we are looking for 
is to be found. The head is covered with countless hairs, which 
I will call conductors, through which the mind matter passes 
to the skull of the head. There it is deposited by the conductor 
upon the bone of the head. By the bone it is taken into the 
inner cells, which are as numerous as the ideas of man, There 



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each cell receives its proportion of matter, fertilizing the germ 
therein, causing it to bring forth light to man. In this way 
the brain is the weighty portion, each cell being timed in unison 
with another, like the piano. The brain becomes the performer, 
and strikes with a gentle stroke each key communicating with 
a cell, thereby producing the thought which communicates with 
the tongue. The tongue sends forth the sound to others, and 
by this method we communicate our thoughts, or otherwise let 
them pass silent, when they are only known to ourselves. We 
mark them on paper with pen or pencil in characters which 
others, skilled in the mechanical art, can comprehend and thus 
learn the sound given. 

I will now return to the hair and speak more of it. I have 
laid it down as performing the grandest function of man, and 
yet it adorns man with more beauty than anything else he has 
except the eye. Man is a melancholy subject without the eye, 
and here I will venture the assertion that the eye is fed, as well 
as protected, by the hair. Through the hair which surrounds 
it, its light giving power is continued, and if man wishes to 
strengthen the eye, he must do it through those agents. Hairs 
die upon the head, as do the limbs upon the tree, and when 
dead they give no more food to the mind, nor eye, nor does 
another grow in its place, and, in proportion, those organs suffer 
loss, thereby becoming impaired. Thus we are taught how r 
carefully we should treat the hair. If one is plucked out while, 
alive, it leaves the germ of the root in its place and another 
hair comes to supply the loss and perform the functions of the 
first hair. A dead hair can be known by its root being black, 
and when plucked out draws the gerrn with it. 



72 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



Thus we are taught how careful we should be with our hair. 
Never mat it up with any kind of grease, for it throws off oil from 
the head. It should be carefully washed every day and never 
subjected to the curling tongs, as ladies often do to make them- 
selves look more handsome, not knowing that they are laying, 
or bringing about the cause of idiocy. The hair of idiots fails 
to conduct the mind matter to the inner part of the head, the 
cells are empty, and when the brain strikes the key the sound 
is communicated only in a conglomerated form. In other cases 
idiots heads fail to have the cells complete, and when the mind 
matter is conducted to them it mingles together in one large 
cell, and when the brain strikes the key, it gives one conglome- 
rated sound in which there is no intelligence, either to them- 
selves or others. If the head is perfect, the mind might be 
restored by raising the scalp and removing the futile matter 
from the skull, leaving it in such a condition that the perfect 
matter could pass to the cell. This, I would say, could not be 
done with an old person, but might be in childhood, while the 
germ of the cell is still alive, which, I imagine, lives for some 
years. 

With sorrow, I speak of a young lady who stopped at my 
hotel for the purpose of treatment. Her mother accompanied 
her, and had come, with some hope, from quite a distance. The 
honest doctor said no relief could be given and the mother had 
to return without future hope. The girl was sadly demented. 
She had been, in early life, a girl of wonderful mind, excelling 
all her schoolmates in learning. But, alas, the fatal blow came 
and the mind was deranged. I will say this girl might have 
been partially restored — by this, 1 mean, not to the fullness of 
mind. 

As I have before said, the mind is fed through the hair of 



THE MIND. 73 

the head and acted upon by the brain. The brain, being the 
motive power, strikes the key that connects with the silver cord 
that gives action to the tongue, or, rather, the sound passes out 
through action of the tongue. The tongue being charged with 
electricity, like unto, the telephone wire, the sound goes forth to 
the ears of others. To help sustain this theory, I will speak of 
the youth of our race. A boy's voice is sharp and shrill up to 
about the time his beard begins to grow, and then it becomes 
hoarser and much stronger than it was in his youth. We say that 
the beard was given to the male that his voice might be made 
stronger than the female, and so in this I aim to show to the 
mind that a double cell is formed, or, rather, one formed over 
the other so, at the age of beard, a double sound is given 
which adds much to the strength of the voice, as well as 
to the intellect. The beard becomes a feeder to the under 
cell. Without beard the voice is not apt to change, and, in 
case the voice does not change, the defect is the same as in 
the idiot child. Here I will say that typhoid fever stops the 
flow of matter to the cells proper, and they become empty — 
hence, partial insanity for a short season until the patient 
regains vitality, then the flow of matter resumes. As a matter 
of proof of this, I will state that the voice of the female, who 
has no beard, never changes only in tits of hysterical passion, 
then it is more shrill than usual. 

We deem this sufficient to call forth investigation from others, 
and if we have erred, we will say, u young ladies, curl your hair 
with the hot crimping iron, or rather tongs.' 1 I think the hair 
around the outer part of the scalp is the greatest feeder to the 
mind, as those cells lie mostly in the lower part of the head, 
hence a bald man does not lose so much by his baldness. Keep 
your hair clean by washing it daily with Peet's toilet soap. I 



74 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



mean Peet, of Kansas City, and his best toilet soap. It is not 
expensive, and is used in many hotels. 

I will now speak of the canine tribe and their knowledge. I 
claim they have reasoning powers, and I cite this instance to 
show it: On the 1st day of December, 1858, in company with 
twelve other men and four dogs, I set sail in a prairie schooner, 
the sail power being two mules. We steered for the Horse-shoe 
Bend of the Brazos, in which we spent some days in hunting 
deer and turkeys. One of the party was named Pain, a Tennes- 
seean by birth. I will have occasion to speak of him again, 
further on in this article. It was winter time when we crossed 
the Brazos, very early in the morning; the snow was coming 
down from above so heavily that we could scarcely see fifty feet 
ahead of us. Pain, Hazlerig, and the writer were detailed to 
hunt, as our supply of meat was well-nigh exhausted, and, as we 
were considered the best hunters, we were sent out that the mess 
might have venison and turkey to eat that night. The heavy 
snow-storm did not last long, and we soon marked out our route 
of march. Hazlerig was to go to the left, Pain in the center, 
and the writer to the right. We moved off, as arranged. Soon 
the writer found he was lost, and he steered his ship into Pain's 
beat and said to Pain, " I cannot navigate my craft in this snow 
alone, so I will hitch on to your rudder and see what luck we 
will have." On we moved, side by side. All of a sudden 
Pain's eye caught sight of a four-spiked buck. With the sight 
the gun came down, and with the coming down of the gun came 
its report and the deer fell to the ground. We started up to 
see how he laid and found him on his side, batting his eye like 
fury. I said, " Pain, hold on; there's danger in that fellow. 
Let me give him a ball in the head.'" No sooner said than the 
ball was on its way, entered the head, quieted the eye, and 



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stilled the nerves of that buck for that day. The work of pre- 
paring him for hanging upon a tree was soon accomplished, 
and, as soon as we had marked the surroundings on the mind, 
so as to find the deer, we moved on. " What is that we hear? 
It is Hazlerig's gun; he has a deer! " was ejaculated. We 
moved in the direction of the sound. Bang! went the gun, 
and bang! again, iive or six times, in rapid succession. We 
then answered by a shot, and on we moved, when we spied 
Hazlerig. Pie was seated on a maiden doe and completely lost. 
We soon cleared his head of the kinks, prepared his deer, hung 
it up, and started for camp. When we arrived at the camp, we 
found the boys in a stew, mixed in a deep ravine, two hundred 
yards from wood. tk Why did you get in this ravine? " " We 
thought the Indians would not be so apt to find us here." Pain 
and Hazlerig took a mule and went after the deer and I moved 
the boys out of the ravine into the woods, arranged a camp, and 
set the boys to chopping down some dead post-oak trees, when 
I heard one of the boys, who was a limb of the law, swear he 
had not come out to clear up the forest. Nevertheless, he 
tugged away at the dead tree until it was on the ground. The 
fire was kindled, the deer soon came in, and all hands were busy 
until venison was in the pot. Then they sat down and told 
hunting narratives until the cook said, " Come, boys! " 

Then, with one grand rush, we circled the pot, 
To fill our stomachs with venison hot ; 
For weary were our limbs from whence we strolled, 
And the works of the night we have not yet told. 

Now, reader, we will pass from this hunting ground further 
down the Brazos. We passed through an oid Indian town 
where the camp-poles yet stood to mark the place of their 
abode, We passed on to the new hunting ground. At this 



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place we found no game, so we soon set out for the fort again. 
Late one evening we spied two deer out upon the prairie, a few 
hundred yards distant. At this point we were going to turn to 
the left and down some three or four hundred yards to 
some timber, to camp. Pain was ordered to take his gun and 
try for a shot at the two deer. His shot-pouch was lying in the 
feed trough, so that all the balls had run out in the trough. He 
gathered up his gun and pouch and started after the deer. 
When in range, he fired, but only broke the deer's leg. It 
hopped off a short distance and laid down. Pain poured in 
some powder and felt for a ball, but found none, so he had to 
return to camp without any further shooting. At camp, he 
said he had broken the deer's fore leg, and, if any one would 
go with him, he would take the dogs and soon catch it. So I 
volunteered and off we went, saying: "Boys, have us some 
supper when we return," which we thought would be very soon. 
A mistake it was, for it was four o'clock in the morning wiien 
we got back. 

Now prepare for the dog sense. When I crossed' the road, I 
stuck up a large dead weed, to mark where to turn for camp as 
we returned. On we went, and soon the dogs jumped the deer 
and away they ran, we following at the top of our speed to keep 
in hearing of the musical notes of the dogs. Miles and miles 
we made before the dogs caught the deer. When caught, they 
soon dispatched him, though they did not cease to bark, for they 
knew we were behind. So they continued to bark and w r e con- 
tinued to run in that direction. I sung out to Pain, who had 
his tongue hanging six inches out of his mouth, " Here is our 
road we will travel on in the morning." Pain said, kk Ya," and 
on we went at full speed. In a very rocky branch, in which 
there was no water, we found the dogs and the deer, the deer 



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cold and stiff. The dogs ceased barking as we arrived. They 
reasoned that it was not necessary to bark any longer, for they 
had the deer and we were there, so they laid themselves down 
to rest. We prepared the deer, fed the dogs upon the offal, 
and hung the carcass upon the same kind of a tree as Zacheus 
climbed to see the Savior as He passed by. Then, with the dogs 
in advance, we started for camp. Arriving at the road spoken 
of. I pulled up some liax weeds and laid them cross-ways in the 
road to mark the place, or point, to turn off for the deer. Here 
I noticed the dogs standing on the hill-side above us, and look- 
ing a> if they wanted us to come that way. We thought we 
knew all about it and went our way along the road. For miles 
we walked, only to learn that we were lost and could not lind 
our way to camp. Eventually we turned back, the dogs going 
ahead of us. About a mile back, we came to a place where the 
road forked we were upon. The dogs scampered down the new 
road, as much as if to say, " This is right, come on;'' but we did 

not think so, and would not go. but continued on the same road. 

© 

The sky was clear and the stars were bright. I said " Pain, do 
you know the seven pointers?" " Xo," was the reply, "Do you?" 
" No,' 3 was the answer. If we had known them, we could have 
found the north star and then we would have known which way 
to go. But we did not know them and continued lost. So it 
is in all cases, gentle reader. The night was much robed in that 
part of the naming sword which rested on the north and east of 
the garden, and we, being on the outside, had to stand it that 
night and continued to walk to keep from freezing. And we 
did walk, and our faithful dogs would not forsake us, but went 
with us on every turn. So we wandered over our lirst ground 
again. In returning to the fork on our right, one old dog ran 

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down that road iifty yards, stopped, turned his head in the di- 



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rection of camp, and stood looking at ns and whining, as much as 
to say, " You are lost; come this way." I said, " Pain, let us go 
this road a piece and see what it looks like." "Agreed," said 
Pain, and we moved off. As soon as we started the dog started 
off in front of us, seemingly in great glee. We stopped and the 
dog stopped and stood as at first. Then we moved and the dog 
moved as before. Soon we found we were on the right road to 
camp. Then we wished to learn for certain if the dog was try- 
ing to lead us to camp. We continued to test the matter by stop- 
ping. The result was the same each time, so I said, "Pain, 
this shall be the final test. You know I stuck up a weed at the 
turning off place. If the dog goes to that weed and stands 
there until we come up, and starts in the direction of camp, it 
will be positive evidence." This he did, and at four o'clock 
we arrived at camp. Many are lost for the want of knowing the 
seven pointers and will wander out of the Garden of Eden until 
four o'clock in the morning. 

I have said more upon the subject of the mind than I set out 
to say, but if any good comes to my fellow-man from it, I will 
be well paid for the labor, and, if no good comes from it, it will 
be like seed sown upon hard ground, or the rocks, but I think 
it will teach young ladies to stop curling the hair of their head 
with hot iron tongs, and cause young men to stop putting oil 
upon their hair, and cause them to clean the hair daily, that it 
may be open and ready to perform its functions. Look at the 
African — how he strives to straighten his hair — and view his 
intellect at the same time. Here I will venture a prediction 
which I made at the close of the late war, and it will be on 
account of the white man not complying with the law of the 
Creator, at the time spoken of, or at some future time. That 
was by not sending the African to his native land, which the 



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Creator made for him, and where He made him to be. My 
prediction is that a more bloody war than the war of 1861 to 
1865 was, will grow out of the disobedience of this act. This 
beino- true, our nation should strive to send him home, that he 
may improve his fatherland. I am friendly to the African, and 
would give him this little book to be a guide. 

T will return to the mind in a mechanical point of view. 
The application of steam was imitation; so are electrical 
works in all their parts. The mechanical part was to control 
and thereby cause it to give a benefit to man. This required 
skill and judgment of man, such as few possess. The mind had 
to radiate and return with its cargo and store the same in the 
mechanical cell. I will not attempt to name those various cells, 
but they are numerous, and I may say that in many heads there 
are cells that never receive a ray of light and are returned to 
him that gave them, empty, with the saying, " I learned you 
were a hard master and exacted much of man." Those cells 
shall be given to others who will make an effort to store in them 
as the little dwarfed bee does, making its cell and carrying upon 
its back the form thereof. 

We class the mind as a substance which is very hard to con- 
trol. It is like the waters of the mighty deep; it is like the 
sun that gives us light; it is like the stars of a dark night; it 
is like the silvery moon. In the evening of life it sends forth 
not a ray but appears tranquil and silvery-like. 

Thus we end this thread, and hope some better head will take 

it up and add thereto, and not do as the poet said: 

Man's inhumanity to man 

Makes countless thousands mourn ! 

By this thread, lift him above, 



Man for man, let him love. 
Let us raise him by our birth ; 
Man, created here on earth. 



MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN 



A DIRGE — BY ROBERT BURNS. 



When chill November's surly blast 

Made fields and forests bare, 
One evening, as I wandered forth 

Along the banks of Ayr, 
I spied a man, whose aged step 

Seemed weary, worn with care ; 
His face was furrowed o'er with years 

And hoary was his hair- 
Young stranger, whither wanderest thou ? 

Began the reverend sage ; 
Does thirst of wealth thy steps constrain, 

Or youthful pleasure rage ? 
Or haply, pressed with cares and woes, 

Too soon thou hast began 
To wander forth, with me, to mourn 

The miseries of man ! 

The sun that overhangs yon moors, 

Out-spreading far and wide, 
Where hundreds labor to support 

A haughty lordling's pride ; 
I've seen yon weary wintry sun 

Twice forty times return ; 
And every time has added proof 

That man was made to mourn. 



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" O, man, while in thy early years, 

How prodigal of time ! 
Misspending all thy precious hours, 

Thy glorious youthful prime ! 
Alternate follies take the sway, 

Licentious passions burn ; 
Which tenfold force gives Nature's law, 

That man was born to mourn. 

" Look not on youthful prime, 

Or manhood's active might ; 
Man then is useful to his kind, 

Supported in his right ; 
But see him on his edge of life, 

With cares and sorrows worn, 
Then age and want — O, ill-matched pair ! 

Show man was made to mourn. 

" A few seem favorites of fate, 

In Pleasure's lap caressed ; 
Yet think not all the rich and great 

Are likewise truly blest. 
But, Oh ! what crowds in every land, 

Are wretched and forlorn ! 
Through weary life this lesson learn, 

That man was made to mourn. 

" Many and sharp the num'rous ills 

Inwoven with our frame ; 
More pointed still we make ourselves, 

Regret, remorse, and shame. 
And man, whose heaven-erected face 

The smiles of love adorn, 
Man's inhumanity to man 

Makes countless thousands mourn. 

" See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, 
So abject, mean, and vile, 
Who begs a brother of the earth 
To give him leave to toil; 



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And see his lordly fellow worm 

The poor petition spurn, 
Unmindful, though a weeping wife 

And helpless offspring mourn. 

" If I've designed yon lordling's slave 

By Nature's law designed, 
Why was an independent wish 

E'er planted in my mind ? 
If not, why am I subject to 

His cruelty and scorn ? 
Or why has man the will and power 

To make his fellow mourn ? 

" Yet let not this too much, my son, 

Disturb thy youthful breast ? 
This partial view of humankind 

Is surely not the best. 
The poor, oppressed, honest man 

Had never, sure, been born, 
Had there not been some recompense 

To comfort those that mourn. 

" O, Death ! — the poor man's dearest friend- 

The kindest and the best ! 
Welcome the hour my aged limbs 

Are laid with thee at rest ! 
The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, 

From pomp and pleasure torn ; 
But, Oh, a blest relief to those 

That, weary-laden, mourn ! " 



I 




W. W. DUNN. 



AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



The writer of this little book thinks it not out of place to 
make a short biographical sketch of his travels through life. 
He knows that it is not a common thing for a man, yet living, 
to write his own history. He will endeavor to give nothing but 
what is true, and will rarely speak of his own faults, for no man 
likes to have his faults paraded before his eyes, and the good- 
ness of the Creator will not cause your errors and faults brought 
before your face. So, look not for my faults, but merely what 
I have said and done during my sojourn in the wilderness, and 
as I, with a clear conscience, do believe I am nearing the end 
of my pilgrimage, when this mind and body shall cease to act 
in the flesh, but will be perpetuated in the spirit land until some 
germ of the human family shall claim it for a season, and so on 
until the closing scene of Adam's day. Then I shall go in with 
the flesh and be born of the germ that knows no guile. Then 
the mortal shall put on the immortal and be clothed in all its 
beauty. 

My first birth was May 6, 1822. I came to the light of the 
world in Washington county, Virginia. I was born of woman — 
one that was said to have been lovely, lowly, and meek, doing 
the will of the Father as nearly as she knew how. Death 
claimed her on February 4, 1825, leaving myself and four 
brothers and sisters. Father then was the shield and 



86 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



garden. On February 3, 1836, he was also taken. Then I 
was in the world without parental care. 

With boyish instinct I breasted the storm, wielding the hoe, 
the axe, the scythe, the cradle, holding the plow, and not for- 
getting the rifle, which was my boon companion when the 
squirrel hunt came on. I was a number one shot at a squirrel. 
I made the wonderful shot, so much talked about among the 
hunters, to kill a squirrel by shooting its eye out without break- 
ing the skull. This I did. The next great shot I made was to kill 
a blue- winged humming bird, on the wing, with the rifle. That 
I also did, leaving nothing to be gathered up, save one wing. 

I was quite an expert when it came to fishing, and here 1 
will give you an account of one night's fishing in what was 
called the " Sinking Spring." About the spring of 1843, two 
Methodist preachers came to tarry for the night with us. I 
asked them if they would like to have a fish-fry for breakfast. 
" Yes," was the quick response. I said to my brother, whose 
name was Jacob, " Let us catch up our horses and go to the 
Sinking Spring and see if we can catch some fish for the preach- 
ers." I have forgotten their names, though I think one of them 
was named Pane. It was about three miles to the Spring. We 
arrived there after dark and found four boys fishing there. 
Their names were Powers, and they were neighbors to us. I 
said to them, " How are the fish biting?" " Fine$" said one. 
u Well, I come to fish for the preachers," said I. One of the 
party ejaculated, " I think you will have good luck." I baited 
my hook, cast it into the spring with a good sinker. It was 
soon deep down in the blue waters, for the spring was very 
deep- -two hundred feet or more. Just as it became steady I 
felt a quick jerk that told me I had a fish. Out it came, and 
into my rock fort it went. The fort was a small barricade I 



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had hastily made of rock to contain my fish. In went the hook 
again and out came another fish, and so on, in rapid succession, 
until my fort, or pen, was full of floundering fish. From the 
time my hook went in the Powers boys never had another bite 
nor caught another fish. After my pen was filled I said to one 
of the Powers boys, " Here, take my hook and pole and fish for 
the preachers and see what luck you will have, and I will string 
my fish." So he fished with my rod and hook, and threw out 
the fish as fast as I had done. After I had finished stringing 
my fish I said, " I will take my rod and line." He handed 
them over, and again I was pulling them out as fast as my hook 
sank in the water. Powers then said he could catch fish with 
his own hook, and, taking line and hook from his pocket, made 
it fast to the pole, baited the hook, and dropped it into the 
water. He waited for half an hour and didn't as much as get 
a nibble, while I was throwing out fish as fast as I could bait 
my hook and throw it in. Jacob caught fish all the time. The 
Powers left in disgust. We caught about three hundred and 
left for home. The preachers enjoyed the account of the trip 
and demolished the fried fish for breakfast. I must say they 
were fried by old Eve, a colored woman, and a good cook she 
was. The boys often said she could make good soup of hickory 
chips. 

I went to Scott county in the summer of 1838. In Sep- 
tember, 1839, I attended a revival meeting, conducted by Izara 
Drake, a Methodist preacher. It was held about one mile from 
Osborn's ford, on Clinch river. The meeting lasted for* nine 
days and the Scottites flocked in from all parts of the county. 
Over four hundred joined the church. I was among the first and 
continued a church member for quite a number of years, always 
expressing doubts in regard to religion, but was too weak in my 



88 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



mind to look for myself. So I had others look for me. Drake 
often met me and would talk to me about preparing for the 
ministry, and I thought much upon the subject, and did com- 
mence studying for that purpose, but I gave it up in the spring 
of 1845 and went to work, in good faith, to provide myself the 
necessary goods of this wilderness to make life a happy one. I 
found the way very hilly — some days up and some days down. 
I managed to keep my head above the water and continued to 
pull for the shore. So I did not become a preacher, or a beggar, 
but by the sweat of my brow, up to this hour in the day, and, 
through my exertions, will, until the last hour of the day. 
So I say, friends, be of good cheer and weed out your own 

patch and study your own case as you pass along, and Christ 
will bring you into the fold, though you will have to pass 
through the rire. Fear not; have not a doubt, and you will 
pass the scene and enter in at the west gate of the garden. Re- 
member, Adam and Eve went out at the east gate. This is 
evolution of itself, and through evolution you can behold all 
things to come. 

Evolution is my theme and evolution is my song, 
And by evolution we join the happy throng ; 
Beyond the fiery gate we pass to our estate, 
Never doubting, always holding fast, by faith. 

Time had now brought me to about my seventeenth year. 
I was living with a widow woman, by the name of Cowden. I 
had engaged to work with her husband, Hiram, prior to his 
death, until I was twenty-one years of age, for which I was to 
have one year's schooling, a horse, saddle, and bridle, a suit of 
clothes, and fifty dollars in money, all of which was a great 
comfort to look forward to, for when my labors were heavy and 



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the sweat was profuse upon the brow, I would look forward 
for the things with joy, and, with much glee, think of a rider 
upon my tine horse, with my ow T n saddle and bridle. Yes, I 
would think how my line suit would glisten in the summer's 
sun and how the fifty dollars would jingle in my pocket. I 
thought how I would make some country maid's heart ache to 
be riding by my side. So I toiled through with this pride, 
doing my duty whatever it might be, except breaking flax. 
That was a holy terror to me, but I had a good excuse. I had 
then hired an old man by the name of Sins, who had lost one 
leg. So I always told the widow I could not take his work from 
him, as he followed breaking flax for a living. By this means 
I escaped working the flax break. 

Those happy, happy days were spent upon the banks of the 
Clinch river, Scott county, until the fall of 1844. Then I went 
to Castlewoods, Russell county. There I boarded with one 
Nathaniel Dickenson, and went to school. The last days of my 
schooling were in the spring of 1845. I worked mornings and 
evenings and on Saturdays to pay my board while attending 
school. Then my graduating day came and I hired to George 
and Bone Gray to drive a wagon and work a small farm about 
a mile from Lebanon, Russell county. The Grays were mer- 
chants. In the fall of 1845 I bought a few goods from them, 
procured a wagon, and off to the mountains of Kentucky I 
drove. I sold goods for three months, after which I returned 
to Scott county. There I peddled for seven or eight months. 
I fell in with a brother peddler, who was working for a man 
named Adam Hickman, of Abingdon, Virginia. We put our 
wagons together and made a little store-house on Moccasin 
creek, Russell county. Here I sold goods, read medicine, drove 
hogs, etc., until about Christmas, in 1846, at which time I 



90 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



closed out my business and volunteered to go and fight the 
Mexicans for the United States. 

On March 10, 1847, I left Abingdon on the stage for Lynch- 
burg, a distance of 205 miles. We pushed our way through 
snow and mud to Lynchburg. There we took a canal-boat for 
Richmond. There were three of us in company, A. McCorkel, 
M. Hooser, and myself. We volunteered in Company H, First 
Virginia Regiment. On the 22d day of February, we sailed 
from Fortress Monroe, destined for Mexico. On the 9th 
of March, we landed at Brazos de Santiago, Texas. Thence 
went six miles to the Rio Grande, and thence to Matamoras by 
steam- boat. Here we tarried for three days and then started 
for Camargo, a distance of five hundred miles by river. Ar- 
riving at Camargo, we rested about one week and then started 
on foot, up the San Juan river, for Monterey, nothing of much 
importance transpiring. We spent some time at Walnut 
Springs on the way. 

We remained in Monterey until June, when we left for Sal- 
tillo and Buena Vista, arriving there on June 13th. The regi- 
ment camped at these points until the thirteenth of the next 
June, (1848), when we left for home. Retracing my steps 
over the same grounds and waters, I landed in Abingdon the 
10th of August, 1848. After three days rest, I went in and 
took charge of a dry goods store, with a half interest. We had 
a good trade and made money. Noble I. McGinn is was the 
kind friend that gave me the start and trusted his means in my 
hands. In a few T months I had given such satisfaction, that he 
proposed to sell out the stock to me on my own terms. T thought 
it important to have a partner, and called upon a young man of 
<mo<l business qualities and offered to take him in. He had no 
money, but he had good sense and could work. He accepted 



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my proposition, and the firm of Dunn <k Henritze was estab- 
lished. We had a fine trade from the jump, but I being of a 
restless turn of mind, could not stand what I thought a con- 
fined place like a store, and I imagined that I could see heaps of 
shining gold for me in California. The feeling grow stronger, 
day by day, until I could stand it no longer. I said, " I must 
sell out and go and see the gold diggings. " So Mr. McGiiinis 
bought me out, and 1 was soon ready to be off. This time, I 
was overpersuaded by my uncle to change my destination and 
go to Tazewell Courthouse, Virginia, in search of gold. 1 
yielded and went to Tazewell to sell goods there. I made some 
money. While there [ did many things to unearth the hid- 
den gold. At first, I sold goods, after which 1 sold clocks for 
about three years, and a good salesman I was. I cleared about 
fifty dollars per day. Here I had struck gold, sure, and worked 
like a hero. Many was the Yankee trick I did. I will relate 
but one. One day I was driving along a ridge in Russell 
county, soliloquizing where and how I could sell a clock. I 
hove in sight of a neat little log-cabin and drove up to the gate. 
I jumped out of my wagon and walked in with the salutations 
of the day. I said, - I have a few clocks in my wagon for sale, 
and seeing you have none, would be glad to exchange one with 
you." •• What do you want to exchange for! " said the gentle- 
man, for such he was. ;; Oh! for gold, gold; for gold," said I. 
The terms were soon agreed upon and the clock, brass as it was, 
commenced ticking. Tick, tick, was the sound. The sweet 
wife and gentle hostess looked happy, yea, thrice happy, for they 
had been one but for a short period. 

" I believe I will buy my father a clock. He lives some dis- 
tance from the road and doesn't often meet with a chance of 
getting a clock," said the gentleman. In a few moments by 



92 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

the first clock, the second was sold for the father. The good 
wife had dinner ready by this time, and I ate a hearty one of 
snap beans, corn bread and buttermilk, and then, with a pleasant 
smile, I bid them adieu, drove around about six miles to the 
father's, found a well-to-do man, sold him a clock for himself 
and one for the son, on the ridge, and went on my way rejoicing. 
A few days after the son said, " Wife, I will take father's clock 
over to him." The same morning the old man said, "Mother, 
I will go over to John's to-day, and carry his clock along." 
Accordingly, the two bundled up their clocks and away they hied 
for each other's homes, meeting about the halfway tree. They 
said, <• Good morning! " " Good morning! " " What's that you 
have under your arm?" "A clock I bought for you the other 
day, when one of those peddlers came along." " What's that you 
have wrapped up in a sheet? " " Is's a clock I bought for you." 
The twain burst into such a fit of laughter that a hunter ran 
up to learn what it meant. " Nothing," they said, " only a 
Yankee trick. A clock pedler sold me and my son four 
clocks." They exchanged clocks and went home to bear the 
news to their wives. 

After this I drove horses, played sheriff, and so on, and 
returned to the counter. I was postmaster for Uncle Sam, at 
Tazewell Courthouse, for three years, and taught Sunday school 
during the time, went fishing and had rheumatism well nigh 
unto death. 

In 1851, while at Tazewell, I was engaged to be married. 
From various causes my intended was induced to return 
the betrothal ring, thereby breaking the engagement, which 
remained so for some months. I traveled with a sad and heavy 
heart, refusing all offers by friends to attempt a reconciliation. 
The hours passed slowly, many of them being spent in reading 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 93 



and hunting. The matter was slowly passing from my mind. 
My appetite was better, my sleep was soothing and the feeling 
of former days was returning. I laid upon my cot to rest. 
Soon the .world was shut from the mind and I slumbered in a 
quiet and peaceful way. Suddenly I awoke, and opening my 
eyes, about one foot away, there sat my loved one, plain, clear 
and distinct. She was dressed in a green calico dress, a black 
apron, with strings one and a half inches broad, one end of a 
string in the left hand. She was picking and frazzling the 
string with the other. I lay for some time watching her, until 
every form of her dress was stamped upon my mind. Know- 
ing that I was upon my cot, I could not think she was there, so 
I determined to put forth my hand and see if it was a vision or 
not. So I reached forth my hand. She did not grasp it, but 
disappeared. 

The next morning I told my partner I should get a letter 
from my Emily that day. Sure enough, when the mail came 
the letter came. The seal was broken and its contents soon 
learned. It was after this order: 

" Excuse me, I fear to write but my conscience forces me so 
to do, and I cannot appease it by doing otherwise. Will you 
see me? If so name the time and place." 

THE ANSWER. 

Emily: Yours of the has been received — a welcome 

message. I will see you at your father's house on — day. 

W. W. D. 

When the meeting took place the renewal of the vision already 
related was most perfect, save that when I put forth my hand 
she grasped it with a joyful smile which was reciprocated by 
W. W. D. In a few months we were made one. Happy was 



94 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



our union, though short. Eleven years I trod the wine press 
alone, through many scenes of a varied nature. 

In the spring of 1858, I went, in company with others, 
eighty-five miles to the Guyandotte river, for the purpose of 
hshing. I labored excessively and caught some line fish. After 
spending live days fishing we set out for home. We took a 
trail across a mountain, the way being so steep we had to dis- 
mount and walk, in order that our horses could ascend. De- 
scending, we found the same trouble, and we were compelled to 
make about four miles on foot. This was too much foot exer- 
cise for me, and it caused an attack of rheumatism that came 
near carrying me to the other stage of existence. One day, dur- 
ing its time, my friends had no hope of my staying. I came 
through, and about the middle of August was able to be about 
among the pilgrims in a business capacity, and in the last of 
September, in company with my father-in-law, Robert Gillespie, 
and his family, set out for Texas. 

The trip was made in wagons, and it required two months to 
make it, the distance traveled being eleven hundred and twenty- 
seven miles to Fort Worth. Gillespie settled seven miles south 
of this place. I remained here until the ninth day of Feb- 
ruary, when upon the hurricane deck of a very fine mule, I 
hoisted sail and turned the bow south — the rudder stood toward 
the naming sword. Calmly and quietly, I sailed through Hills- 
boro, Waco, Bel ton, Round Rock, San Gabriel, New Bran nf els, 
and came to anchor in San Antonio for a few days. Thence I 
sailed west for Castro ville, where I furled sails for the night. 
Next day I made a short run, passing through a German town, 
and anchored on the banks of the Saco, where I tarried for the 
night. I laid on the prairie with two schooners bound for El 
Raso. In the morning, before the sun appeared in the east, sail 



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was unfurled to the gentle breeze and I was soon in Uvalde, 
where I spent one day, tacked ship, set the rudder west and 
started for the east, stopping on the waters of the Hondo, in 
Medina county. Here I bought a quarter section of land, sold 
my ship and took passage in a small schooner in the service of 
the United States, via San Antonio, Seguin and Victoria to 
Powder Horn. There I took a steamer for Galveston and New 
Orleans. From the latter place I set sail for that port in Taze- 
well county known as Tazewell Courthouse. 

Here I spent the summer and in the fall was ready for another 
overland trip to Texas, which I made in company with one hun- 
dred and lifty emigrants. 

During the time of preparation for this second trip, I vaci- 
lated, thinking it hard to leave the fieshpots of Tazewell, where 
I had a great many friends. In a restless mood, one day, I laid 
myself clown to rest. My mind was wandering. I knew not 
what to do. A voice, which 1 did not know, spoke and said: 
" (to, and be a farmer, and I will he with you." I came and 
located upon a farm. The year 1860 was the dryest year I 
have ever known in Texas. I plowed deep, sub-soiled,, and I 
planted and a finer crop never grew upon the face of the earth 
than it was, while my neighbors raised not a nubbin. 

I could not be content upon the farm, so I sold out and 
embarked in mercantile pursuits again, which proved a complete 
failure, and I lost all I had. I again combined farming with a 
tannery and did well, closing up the business with about eight 
thousand dollars. 

The memorable times of 1861 cut a great gash in my finances 
and left me on the outside of an old mule with a slow gait. 
This was a sad dilemma, but, however, there was something good 
in store for me yet, as evolution brings back the same fruits, 



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year after year. So I said the waters that are in the ocean 
to-day may be going into the firmaments to-morrow, the next 
day be condensed and return to water the dry earth, thereby 
bringing manna to feed our thirsting minds. So it was. I was 
made a tanner by the law and was furnished with means by one 
Charles Turner, in Smith county. I located, sunk a tan yard, 
and commenced making leather that the barefooted might be 
clothed. In this I did well, and came out, after the big fight 
was ended, with fourteen thousand dollars to divide between 
Turner and myself. My tanner and myself were Union men, 
that was we were opposed to slavery from principle, and happy 
were we when the war closed. 

I had married, during the war, one N. J. Center, who was 
known to be a Union woman, and it came well-nigh costing me 
my neck, or life. She died after the close of the war, leaving 
me two boy children — Bascom and William. William died in 
a few years, but before this, I had taken to myself a third wife. 
We have no offspring. She yet lives. Her maiden name was 
Parker, but was named Gant by her first marriage. She had 
two daughters — Josie and Ada, now both married and doing 
well. Bascom is twenty-four years old and is yet single. We 
are, at this writing, keeping the Mansion Hotel, which covers 
five-eighths of a block of ground and is worth about $125,000. 
I now write on the third floor, at the east window, where I can 
look out on many green trees and houses of many colors, and 
see, in the distance, the banks of the lovely Trinity river, with 
its beautiful fringe of trees. 

The name k < Trinity " signifies something great. Trinity — 
three in one. The words, with us, we think, have only barely 
begun. Trinity — look the land over and you will scarcely find 
such another name. The world, the nations, the rocks, the hills, 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



were begun by the Trinity. Man, with woman, violated the 
edict given by the Trinity, and thus caused the close of man in 
the first estate. 

He is to perish in the Holy Trinity's renovating, purifying fire, 

And thus bring erring woman and man a step or so higher } 

Now, by the powers of the Trinity, they are nearing the holy land, 

In which they are by the Trinity destined united to stand, 

Although they have long been aliens from the throne. 

Yes, they are now swiftly gliding on to their last home. 

Long, long in the wilderness did they sadly roam. 

Thirsting and panting for the Trinity's fair and happy home. 

What a happy time it will be, 

When by a glowing fire we will be set free ! 

Its glowing heat we should gladly meet, 

Thus to be borne away to walk the golden streets. 

Through the Trinity, we will hail the fire with delight, 

And pass the word with all our might, 

And thus we will hail the Trinity's happy light. 

AVhen the fires take place and you and I are again born of 
Christ, it will be a glowing theme to know that it was His 
scheme. 




THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 



Reader, if you are the son of a man that has all the comforts 
that money can give to the sojourner, and you have free access 
to it, and your father should issue a prohibition edict to you, 
forbidding that you should drink of the intoxicating liquors of 
this land, and saying, " If you violate this injunction, I will 
turn you out among the sorrows of the land, where you will 
have to earn your bread and raiment by labor performed by 
your own hands, and you no more shall enter my house," and 
hearing this, you violate the law, and then hear the sentence, 
" Go from my house and live for yourself," and you say, 
" Father, forgive me," then the mind of the father has sym- 
pathy for the son, but he cannot forgive him for the law is im- 
perative and cannot be changed or reversed. Hence he must 
go, as he has committed the unpardonable sin. He has sinned 
against the spirit and must go. The father was grieved, and 
regretted the act of the son, after which he laid a plan of re- 
demption, though the son was not apprised of it. The son 
goes forth into the accursed Avorld and soon finds hunger gnaw- 
ing at the vital parts. Now he begins to feel the sorrow rest- 
ing upon the brow; the gnawing becomes keener and keener 
until he would gnaw the bark from the trees, or even chew the 
thorns that prick the flesh. Now he begins to feel the sting 
of his act and fain he would cry to the father for mercy. But 



THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 99 

no mercy can be given — more than was given — that was to go 
to labor and gather his bread, as commanded. When weeping 
and sorrow will accomplish no more, he takes up the plow, lays 
down sorrow, and straight to work he goes. 

The weeds and briers he manfully slew, 
Until the corn and wheat were brought through. 
Thus man lives under the yoke of sin, 
Until the fire and Christ shall usher him in. 

Reader, you can begin to see how sorrow crowns the brow of 
the wayward. See them as they journey along the broad road 
that leads to death, for thousands there be that walk therein on 
account of this woful sin. Thus things have been passing for 
this six thousand years, and how much longer I cannot say, for 
the Creator has said the plan of redemption is laid and evolu- 
tion cannot, nor will not, be stayed until the time arrives. All 
this time the Creator, with the tree of life, has been shielded by 
the naming sword. 

We will dwell for a time upon the wonders of the weapon. 
We have said it was composed of ice, fed by water upon one- 
half of the circle, the other half by fire, fed by gas; both kept 
in motion by evolution, existing in two forms — one, the body, 
the other, the spirit. So has man, the tiller of the soil, evoluted, 
and will continue so to do until renovated by the great fire, 
which is to wind up his labors. 

The Creator said the flaming sword should be the name of the 
barrier, or obstruction, to keep man from approaching the tree 
of life. Adam and Eve were turned out at the east gate. There 
he set up the icebergs, turning, as it were, the cold shoulder to 
them, for it made their jaws chatter as they passed south to get 
out of reach of the cold blast. Then the light of the icebergs 
went out, reaching far into the south. This light is known to 
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100 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



us as the milkyway, and is reflected from the icebergs; hence 
its soft, silvery nature. It was a guide, for a time, to Adam 
and Eve and their children by night. When they cast their 
eyes back, the thrilling aurora borealis rolled up behind them, 
as if to say, " Go on, for I am here producing My wonderful 
light to help the lost on their way." 

To this day they are moving south and west, where they are to 
meet a warm welcome in the crowning flame made of gas and fire, 
which we must pass through in order to be prepared to go to the 
Father and the tree of life. I have given a description of this in 
a former article, and therefore leave off at this point and return 
to the wilderness, where man is working out his salvation, and 
is carrying out the word given to the children of man. We were 
commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. For disobey- 
ing this command we receive our reward on the earth and while 
in the wilderness. By this act we become the sons of our 
earthly parents, whose law we are in duty bound to obey. So, 
children, I repeat and say, obey your father and mother, for 
they have labored hard to give you the necessaries of life and 
to bestow something upon you. When you move for yourself, 
your offspring will become a charge of yours, and it does sorely 
grieve the parents to see their offspring going astray by diso- 
bedience to the law. Then, children, do not fill the heads of 
your father and mother with sorrow by being wayward, but ad- 
here to the law, let it come from State, county, father or 
mother. If you do this, your days will be mingled with pleas- 
ure as you journey through the wilderness, and your offspring 
will follow in your footsteps, until they return to the ground 
and from thence to the spirit. 

When we enter the spirit for the last time, it will be through 
the lire. So you see we go out from the icebergs and go in 



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through the tires. Then we will receive the germ of Christ and 
begin a new life in the New Jerusalem, 

Where all is rilled with joy, 
Relieved from earthly alloy. 



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APPENDIX. 



I now give thanks to all who may chance to read this book, 
and hope, from the truths herein given, you may become good 
women and men and cause your children and servants to read 
and turn to the true light and the facts here set forth. I now 
ask for sixty sound-minded men to write me upon the subject 
of forming an Evolution Circle to further the cause and bring 
the theme from darkness to the light. I want none but true 
converts, such as will adhere strictly to all rules that may be 
adopted. 

Such as write, will please send good reference, with the appli- 
cation. When this number is obtained, I will set a time and 
place for the meeting and notify each one of the chosen. 

Give your address plainly. 






PRAIRIES AND PRAIRIE GRASS. 



A prairie is a broad expanse of land upon which trees do not 
grow. 

There is a cause for this, for we iind, after many years culti- 
vation, trees will grow. I have seen trees transplanted for ten 
or iifteen years which had not grown a limb six inches long. 
How are we to account for this? At the same time, the grass 
and weeds greAv luxuriantly right at the hase of the tree. I 
will state that the matter which formed the trees was not there, 
but that which formed the grass was there, and it will appear 
that the earth did its part in keeping the tree alive. The earth 
was rich and produced wheat, corn and oats. Man and beast 
lived upon the same; that is to say, native animals. Cows 
brought from the more Northern States would not live more 
than one or two seasons, and then they would dwindle away in 
flesh and die. If healthy cattle are driven from here and let 
feed upon the grasses of Missouri, and the native cattle follow 
them over the same pastures, they will sicken and die. This is 
the case the first year, after which they can graze together with- 
out any detriment to the natives. 

This teaches that the detrimental matter is in the grass 
here. The flesh imbibes the same, and as soon as it passed from 
the Texas cow all w r as genial between the different sections. 
The same thing was brought to bear when cows were brought 
here from the more Northern States. The cow had to become 



104 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



filled with this matter. For the sake of a name, I will call it 
arsenic, or, perhaps, morphine would be a better name. A man 
or a woman can imbibe a considerable amount of morphine and 
live, but, if they stick to it, they dwindle away and die. Then 
we might call it alkali, which kills trees, vines and cotton, and 
is much dreaded in California, as it is destructive to orchards 
and almost all kinds of vegetable life. An antidote for this 
alkali is yet to be found. I think we have waves of it passing 
over our prairies. The grass imbibes it and thus becomes detri- 
mental to all stock that is not accustomed to it. 

Look how sick tobacco makes a boy, for as such they imbibe 
the effects of its poison, and, in fact, it becomes genial to some. 
I now have spent thirty years in studying this matter and am 
not able to give a better solution, and have merely thrown out 
these hints that others may investigate further and more closely. 

Upon the high prairies there is no honey for the bees to 
gather, and the result is, bees cannot live upon the prairies. I 
kept bees here, in Fort Worth, for a number of years. I looked 
after them soon in the morning and found they went to the 
river bottoms for the honey, and many years they failed to find 
much there. This being the case, they were poor. 

Wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, and the cultivated grasses grow 
well, and, of course, the native grasses do likewise. 

Peaches, apples, pears, and plums, as well as grapes, did poorly 
here thirty years ago. I find quite a marked difference now, as 
they all flourish well here at this time. Melons, of all kinds, 
grow to perfection, and, as land is cheap, this is a good place 
for the man with the plow and hoe. 

The year 1860 was the worst year I have experienced in this 
country for a crop. I planted thirty acres of corn, and sold out 
in the spring to my brother. Me finished cultivating and 



PRAIRIES AND PRAIRIE GRASS. 105 

gathered and sold nine hundred dollars worth of corn and Lad 
plenty left for his own use. He sold the corn at two dollars a 
bushel. There was not a bushel of bread corn to be had for 
many miles from this place, and the people said, " I am going 
down into Egypt for corn, 1 ' but when they untied their sacks, 
they found their money in the sacks in the shape of corn, which 
was better than gold or silver. Here we have use for gold and 
silver, but in the New Jerusalem we will have no need for it as 
an exchange, but there inse it for side-walks and like purposes. 



BAD COLDS. 



The origin seems to be very imperfectly known, as is ex- 
pressed by almost all persons that are thus affected. It is a 
fact that all persons have colds, more or less, from childhood to 
old age, and as Ave have a very imperfect idea of the mind and 
its prodntion, so it is as to bad colds, and as I have said, mind 
is matter composed partly of electricity, which gives action to 
both body and mind; then a bad cold is that part of the mind 
called matter after having expended its electricity, and has to 
be passed off as all other refuse or futile matter. 

This matter has to be removed from the head through its 
proper channel, the nose. Should the nose become swollen so 
as to obstruct the passage, then it turns back into the mouth 
and has to pass off that way. This action produces the cold 
which man so often says, " I have, but don't know how it came." 
I hold it essential for man's comfort that all actions in regard 
to ourselves should be known to us, hence the instruction — 
" Man, know thyself." 

Could better advice be given than to say to us, " Man, know 
yourself/' To know ourselves we must set up a rigid search of 
ourselves; then we must class ourselves with other machines, 
and set up the different parts of the machine and learn the first 
wheel aud its hearing on the second, third, and so on, until all 
arc closed; then the action of the combination, separately and 
collectively. Then if one wheel meets with a defect, we can. 



BAD COLDS. 107 



soon learn what is necessary to be done to put the machine in 
motion again, and if it cannot be replaced the machine is ren- 
dered useless. Xow, if the useless matter could not be re- 
moved, the man would become powerless, in many cases. 
IJence the importance of knowing ourselves, and to know how 
this matter is to be passed off, is to know how it come in the 
head. I have said it is conducted in through the hair of the 
head and face, and out through the nose to the earth, where it 
evaporated, returning to the firmaments and again to the head, 
as does the water when evaporated, returns to the earth and then 
to the ocean evolution. 




SLEEP. 

Sleep is an action all are well acquainted with and know the 
necessity of the same. We call it rest, to cease from labor 
(bodily ) ; then we say that the mind needs rest. Why does it 
need rest? This is not a correct part of speech, or rather a 
wrong idea conveyed to the mind if Ave would say the labor of 
the day has greatly exhausted the electricity from the reservoir 
of the head and non-action is necessary to replenish it again, as 
I will demonstrate by speaking of the mill dam. It is fed from 
the stream above the mill, consumes the water faster than it 
comes in from the stream running into it. The water is 
exhausted, the mill must close down until the dam is replen- 
ished When this is done the mill can grind again. 

So it is with man, when the mind lays at rest for the night? 
the next day the mill is prepared to grind again, provided the 
stream is not cut off from above by drought or other causes. 

According to this, it is very essential to health of the body 
and mind. 

As I am now most particularly speaking of the mind, in all 
cases the mill will not grind when the dam is exhausted. I low 
important is it then, the miller or owner of the dam should 
keep every leak in the dam well chinked and all the avenues 
clear and clean of all obstructions. 

Mothers, keep your children's heads clean, hair straight, as 
the fluid will pass much more rapid in a straight hair than in 
one of many crooks. Although you may fancy the curls, they are 



SLEEP. 109 

not best, and it is the duty of all to do the best thing for our 
offspring, the same as it is for the miller to keep his race and 
clam tight, that the mill may grind. 

Then great care should be exercised that good and clean grain 
be brought to the mill so as to give a good return. 

Health by these actions is obtained and maintained. Have 
nothing to do with alcoholic liquors, for they poison the mind, 
and thereby redden the nose and eyes, clog up the inlets to the 
reservoir of the head and thus spring a leak in the dam and 
retard the work of the mill. 






A Few Hints to Farmer's Wives How 
to Make Good Jelly, Sweet or Sour. 



Prepare the ingredients to be used in making the jelly, then 
have a quart sauce pan, pour not more than two or three gills 
of the liquid in the pan, add sugar to your wish, place it on the 
stove, stir until it commences to boil, then cease stirring, keep 
up a brisk heat, and in from two to four minutes your jelly 
will be done — this you must be the judge of, but never attempt 
to make over a pint at a time and you will succeed in making a 
tine jelly. 

In making sorghum molasses never add cold water to the 
boiling syrup. The best plan is to fill the pot, complete it 
ready for use before making any change, and so on until the 
work is done. 

Teach your children to obey all laws made by man. If they 
obey they will be good citizens through life, pass from the stalk 
to the spirit and from the spirit to the stalk and so on to the 
end of Adam's time, after which they will pass through the 
fiery furnace and be born into the new life growing up in the 
pure land of Canaan, dwelling with Christ, the pure and una- 
dulterated son of the Father, who gave Himself as a ransom for 
us. 

Then I say, Christ is the just and great scheam of the Creator, 
and question not his works for they are all good and equitable 
to man. 



A FEW HINTS TO FARMER'S WIVES. Ill 

Man having become the aggressor by violating the law, so I 
say again, do not violate the laws of this or any other country 
and peace will abide with you, otherwise it will not, and sorrow 
will crown the brow and waft you through the great renovating 
tire, through which all have to pass, on account of the unpar- 
donable sin committed by Adam and Eve. But far better it 
will be to enter that tire with a smile than with a frown. So 
let us journey on in good faith doing all things for the best. 




GOVERNMENT OF MAN 



Some of our citizens claim that the government of the Cre- 
ator and that of man should not be mingled together. Here I 
claim to differ, for man was made to imitate his Creator, there- 
fore should imitate Him in all His acts, as well as laws; and, as 
the acts of the Creator are just, our acts should be likewise, 
just one to another. So this article I dedicate to the President, 
Cabinet, Senate, and Congress of the United States of America. 
So I will state you are delegated to do work for the people of 
the Republic, and, as such, the people have the right to speak 
to you, and you are in duty bound to listen to them the same as 
the created should do to the Creator. His laws should be 
obeyed and so should yours. So it is that erring man cannot 
make laws as perfect as the Creator, though he should approach 
as near as the wisdom of the people can give. Then, Mr. Pres- 
ident and co-workers, you should view things, not only from 
your narrow standpoint, but take in the broad extent of your 
land. These remarks are brief, and can be seen from all stand- 
points, so now comes what I wish to write about. It is finance 
and its base or security, and from this, my standpoint: 

I see the realty of our land is the main base of security, and 
well it should be, for all things rest upon the land. Now, then, 
1 look out from the windows of the head and see the millionaire 
lending his money, being secured by a mortgage upon the land 
in the country. He is exacting an interest the land will not 



GOVERNMENT OF MAN. 113 

justify the holder to give. In this case what is to be the re- 
sult? The millionaire will soon own the land, then what will 
be the result? Thousands of our brothers will become serfs, 
in spite of any efforts they may make to the contrary. Once 
serfs, it will require a bloody war to free them. Here, I say, 
remember the words of Henry Clay in 1844. He said: "I 
had rather lose my election than to plunge my government into 
a war." So now it is in your hands to legislate so as to prevent 
much misery by leaving the land free. It behooves us to look 
back into the past, and deep into the future, that we may see. 
Here, I contend, the banking law will control the entire affair. 
So let all mankind drop a grain of sand on the shore and it will 
effectually hold the tide, as does the sand hold the seas in their 
bounds. Now, then, I have said the realty is the sure base, let 
us establish our banking on that base. To do so it requires 
action from the head; then the tail will follow on, as it does in 
the great dipper shown in this work, revolving around the Gar- 
den of Eden. 

Then I ask that the government organize a banking system 
to be based as follows: Say twenty men owning realty given 
in to the tax assessor at one hundred thousand dollars clear of 
all incumbrance, the government, holding a lien on same, issue 
to the said twenty persons a bank charter, so long as conducted 
according to law, and issue them on the same say ninety thou- 
sand dollars of government notes. Allow the bank to loan this 
money to and upon individual security at four per cent, per an- 
num, paying one per cent, of said interest to the government, 
to be used in conducting the banking svstem, the other three 
per cent, to be held by the said bank as their perquisites. This 
system to be made for the entire country. The land, as a gen- 
eral thing, can be made to yield six per cent, and feed the 



114 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



husbandman; thus he may save two per cent, per annum to pay 
off his debt with. In five or six years he will have his land 
free from debt, upon which his family can live in ease, and the 
millionare will have an abundance, too, for his family to live 
in ease, all obeying the law given at the wedding of Adam and 
Eve at the east gate of the garden. The wedding was the law, 
and I find man does obey that law this day. United States of 
America, I ask for a low, uniform rate of interest, that all may 
have an equal show of a good living in this land, owning his 
home and leaving the millionaire with the mortgages on his 
lands, and if perchance they fall into the hands of the govern- 
ment it will soon transfer them to the individual again, as it 
was done of yore. 

With this rate of interest it will be rare to hear of a mercan- 
tile firm failing, for all will be able to pay; then we will have 
less occasion to act dishonestly. I lived in Tazewell county, 
Virginia, for ten years, interest was six per cent. There was 
not a mercantile failure in the county during the time; had but 
two in jail during the time. In 1850 the population was 9999, 
one-tenth of this population could neither read nor write. 

Don't understand I give this in favor of not educating; I am 
in favor of good public schools, that we may not have our 
virgins waiting for the bridegroom without oil in their head 
cells but possessing an abundance to light them into the wed- 
ding chamber where the oil flows as free as life. 



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TO YOUNG MEN 



Young man, I will here caution you against self-abuse, as it 
is the duty of all men and boys to make the best possible appear- 
ance in life, and there is nothing more detrimental to man than 
the act spoken of. So I will say to all boys, do not be led into 
an act of that nature, for it is destructive to the mind, as well 
as to the hair of the head, which feeds the mind and sound. 
Retrain from everything that is detrimental to this, the crown- 
ing gift of the Creator, and always move as the law directs, for 
punishment, here, on earth, is certain, and if you wish to escape 
that punishment, violate not the law. For violating the law. 
Adam caused us to be cast into the wilderness, as well as forcing 
us into the fiery furnace, like unto the three Hebrew children, 
and we must come out likewise, as did Daniel from the den of 
lions. So we will cross the river into Canaan, carrying but 
three of our kind with us. These we lay down as Enoch, Elijah 
and Eastland, who will tell the children of Christ all things 
pertaining to this life, as well as showing our journey through 
the wilderness amidst the lions and lire. Young man, listen to 
these admonitions, as your lives are seen by other eyes and sure 
punishment will be felt by you. 

Many are subject to night emissions. This, too, you can pre- 
vent, as did the writer in 1855, after suffering from that cause 
for some years. All you have to do is to abstain from any ex- 
citing stimulants, as I did, to accomplish the end. Avoid 
tobacco — the worst; coffee, next; whisky, very bad, and should 



116 ' EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



be left off the supply list altogether; milk is harmless, animal 
food is good and gives much strength, especially that of those 
which feed upon grasses, nuts and corn, or such as feed upon 
the flesh of animals which do feed upon the above mentioned 
vegetables. Why is this? Because the vegetable partakes, by 
condensation, largely of the matter that feeds the germ of man. 
Hence such food as does not possess the composite matter of 
man is superfluous, and only takes up space for no benefit, and, 
in many instances, is detrimental. 

" Man, know thyself," shows that he has the talents and must 
learn of himself. 

To parents, I can say with a clear conscience, give this book 
to your children to read, that they may learn of the truths 
herein given. It is written to be a benefit to man — not for ag- 
grandizement — not to go like the whirlwind, but to enter into 
every family of the land, and there to plant its small germ and 
bring forth much good. 



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Statement Corroborating the Connection 
with Electricity and the Hair. 



I here give a statement for which I have a witness in this 
city that substantiates what I here say, and it substantiates what 
I have said in regard to the mind and its sense of reception 
and continuance. The case in point is as follows: 

A man thirty- two years old, without a hair on his face or head, 
was carried to the Oil Springs for treatment. He was without 
any mind — so much so, he would not feed himself. All that 
he swallowed had to be put in his mouth, then he would swal- 
low. He would sit for hours without moving hand or foot; he 
spoke not a word; paid no attention to anything; the report of 
a gun at the side of his head would cause no emotion or move. 
Hence he was a living walking nonentity. Four months at 
the springs caused the hair to start out on the head and face, 
after which he was observed to rub the back of his head with 
his hand. This action was anxiously watched, until one day 
when his meal was brought to him, having been placed on a 
small table and moved up to him to be fed, as usual, he put 
forth his hand and took up a biscuit and did eat. Thus he con- 
tinued to gain knowledge, and in about nine months — the usual 
time for children to speak — he lisped and spoke to his mother; 
after which, he gained in strength until he was able to transact 
business as other men. This I bring forward in support of my 
mind theory, with its manner of being fed. I have one other 
proof of this thing to bring in. My inserting it depends upon 



118 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



others, but the case bears me out in my theory. It happened 
in the late war, when a man was shot through the head and life 
survived the wound, minus a portion of the mind. I hope to 
be able to give it as it was, in full detail. If not, the above 
will have so go for the detail. 

It is good to rub the scalp of the head each day, as it will 
cause all the refuse matter to pass off as well as serve to keep 
the hair in good condition to receive the fluid that passes into 
the cells of the head. I teach that a constant flow is essential 
to all minds as well as strength, and I will say, don't mistake 
the action and let deceivers come in with artificial work and 
claim to relieve you, for they want the fluid. I say it must 
come as the Creator marked out for it to be received. Then 
don't spend your money on deception. It is like the spider's 
web — easy broken, but can deceive. I will say here skilled men 
may learn to remove obstructions in some cases, for obstruc- 
tions can and do exist, but the icebergs and fire were placed 
around the tree of life to prevent the Adamites from reaching 
the tree. 

And happy, thrice happy for us it was so, 

Then with patience let us endure, 
And press our journey on to the door. 
Then happy, thrice happy on Canaan's shore, 

For there we will have no pain to endure. 



We go not to the Greeks and Romans for our 

Lesson. 



I will say here I do not stop with the Greeks or ancient Romans 
for our knowledge of the Creator. I go to the sands of the 
ocean, the pebbles of the. brook, the grass of the fields, the 
rocks of the mountains, trees of the forest and shrubs of the 
plain, and flowers of the valleys, and the gardens of man. I go 
to the orchard where the fruit tree stands; I go to the evapo- 
rating waters; I go to the condensing spirit of the waters, the 
decomposing gold, silver, lead, iron; I go to the condensing 
gases, the fire that decomposes and then dies out for the want 
of substance to act upon — I go to the stars of the firmament. 
They bring electric lights, hung there by the Creator for a pur- 
pose. Yes, they are to light the garden as well as the New 
Jerusalem, and through them we can read the acts and designs 
of the Creator. By such. acts we are enabled to read the minds 
of men who gathered together the material that produces them, 
but first and foremost they come from the Creator, and was 
given for temporary use to man in the wilderness, and through 
them he must study his lesson and improve the talent given, 
otherwise the talent is buried until the owner calls for it. The 
Romans and Greeks had no more opportunity to obtain this 
knowledge than we have, save the time Christ was with them. 
In their days the laws of nature were as perfect as they are 
now, and as perfect now as they were then, but I think man 
possesses more light now than he did in those days, therefore 



120 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

more is exacted of man at this time of the epoch than was in 
their time. Why should it not be so? Is not man progressive? 
I feel that he is and should gather knowledge each day. Then 
we are imitating creatures and should learn to imitate our Crea- 
tor each day of our journey, for we are journeying to the land 
of Canaan where all manner of sin is debarred from entering 
in. Here we are imitating the Creator by our electric lights* 
They hang in our rooms as they hang in his house. Here we 
are moving our machinery by electricity as does the Creator. 
80 I say this world is lighted up and moved by electricity, and 
man has his life and action by electricity. The eye is composed 
of electric fluid and through its power causes us to behold the 
object before us, and I will again reiterate, this fluid is con- 
densed and conveyed to the organs of the head through the hair 
of the head and face. Now, my friend, I ask you to lay aside 
your Greek and Latin books and take up the book of the Crea- 
tor and learn from every character given in it, for they are 
many. You can find them in the grass, in the rocks, trees and 
flowers as well as the waters of the mighty deep and the im- 
mense spaces above. 

Yes, go to the bee, 

That gathers honey from the tree, 

And she will impart a lesson plain to see. 

I would that T could write you a more perfect lesson, my 

mind fails to portray more. I must close. 



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Woman's Inhumanity to Man has Caused 
Countless Thousands to Mourn." 



That was by iirst partaking of the forbidden fruit, first vio- 
lating the law, then causing man to do likewise — and thus the 
unpardonable sin was committed. Why was it thus? Because 
it was in direct violation of a direct order from the Holy Spirit, 
so the Holy Spirit was grieved. There was nothing to be lost 
that was created by the Creator, and as He did not cause this 
act to be brought about, the act had to be lost; that is to say, 
the germ of Adam obtained in violation of the law, therefore, 
it had to be lost. Now I say the fruit contained the life of the 
germ, or the life-giving power which Adam then possessed, and 
carries to this day; hence he received the injunction to multi- 
ply and replenish the earth until the day of your death, which 
shall be in a great renovating lire, and you shall in no 
wise enter into my place of abode until you are purified and 
made holy by the blood of the lamb. Then we must alone 
look for redemption through Him. He has told us how we are 
to be saved, and we cannot be saved by any other method. So 
we must buckle on the armor and travel in the wilderness until 
the day comes; then we will be forced to lay down the germ of 
Adam and pass to the new birth, and that must be through 
Christ. 

Reader, what a comfort it is! Could there be a greater com- 
fort than to know and feel that our stay is not eternal in the 
midst of this wilderness, trampling down the briers, brambles, 



122 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

thistles and thorns? And such would have been the case had 
the Creator not placed the flaming sword around the tree of life, 
to prevent man from entering and eating thereof. Now, as this 
was the tree of life, the other was the germ and tree of death, and 
for eating of the fruit, of that tree he has to sojourn in the 
wilderness for an epoch of time, and without the intervention 
of Christ, would have had to remain out from the presence of 
the Father forever. Yes, we will long to see the day come 
when the icebergs will be melted down, and the ocean dried up, 
and the earth made ready for the children of the new birth or 
the children of Christ. Then we will be like unto Christ, pos- 
sessing the vine and holding in our hands the key of life, that 
we may unlock and partake of all things that we may want 
dwelling in a mansion not made with hands. 

Now, to make ourselves happy we must be just, kind to all 
things, doing unto all persons as we would have them do unto us. 

Now, I have said the mind is fed through the hair of the 
head, the hair containing a large amount of electricity. Then 
it is electric fluid that gives lis action of thought and mind. 80 
we can see that man is learning to control electricity and make 
it useful in many other ways. Hence it is becoming a comfort 
to man, but all the comfort that man can possess, the greatest 
comfort is to know that all the human family is to be redeemed 
from sin and torment and safely housed in that house not made 
with hands, but fashioned by the wisdom and love of the 
Father. So may it be, is my greatest wish and desire. 



This is to Doubting Man 



Now, doubter, read this, not with a critic's mind, always look- 
ing for a sliding off place. Let your mind not act as a man's 
mind acted once when I put the question to him, " How did the 
Creator separate the water from the earth," when he said let 
there be dry land and there was dry land. He said, " the Crea- 
tor caused an upheaval of the earth thereby making dry land.' , 
Kind and gentle reader, I will illustrate to you. If you had a 
cast iron kettle one mile across the mouth, two hundred yards 
deep, and you had another kettle one half the size of the first 
one spoken of, and you turn the smaller kettle bottom up in the 
first kettle making the rim edge of the small kettle air tight, 
having a gas reservoir off to one side from which you run a 
tube or pipe passing into the large kettle underneath the small 
kettle, so as to fill the kettle with a very heavy pressure of gas, 
then we will pass half way up the side of the small kettle and 
make four holes in the kettle fitting in four nipples, then we 
will have a complete ring made hollow, this ring fitted on the 
four hollow nipples. This done we will drill small holes six 
inches all round on the ring, then we fill the outer kettle with 
water liquid form, turn on the gas, it will soon rise to the top 
of the water. You ignite it with tire, it commences to burn, 
heating the water to a boiling heat, then the water begins to 
evaporate and rise up from the kettle passing into the firmament 
in the dry or spirit form where it remains until it meets a con- 
denser, after condensation it falls to the earth again, runs in a 



124 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



small stream to the kettles — by this time one-half the water had 
been evaporated — the tire continues to burn and about one-third 
of the small kettle is out of the kettle, has received a layer 
of earth in which was deposited by the Creator the seeds pos- 
sessing a germ, the germ sends forth a stalk which is fed from 
a like matter that was created by the Creator for that purpose 
and placed in his store house, so we do likewise when it is ready 
for gathering into the crib, drawing it out again for our susten- 
ance, after which it becomes decomposed and passes to the 
Creator's store-house again, from thence to the stalk from which 
we gather, and thus it continues year after year as long as we are 
in the wilderness, amid the briers, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
1 will return to the kettles and view their work. I find a half- 
dozen small streams of w 7 ater running into the outer kettle. 
Evaporation is going on equal to the amount running in, so the 
water does not rise any higher than it was when it began to 
pour hi. In order to keep up those streams condensation must 
take place, which no sceptic can deny. Then, again, can a 
sceptic say this order of things did come about, and acted 
in this perfect harmony by chance. The mind will not encour- 
age any such idea -the brain refuses to strike the chord or note 
of the head that conveys it to the outer world. Then, sceptic, 
do not inculcate such ideas, as the sin will be laid at your door, 
and pain will therefore fill your head when you come to the 
time of returning to the Creators store-house, where we must 
all appear before our entrance into the Land of Canaan, through 
the birth of Christ. Live, then, in purity, work with zeal, doing 
good to all, having all do good to you. 

Having thus illustrated, I will return to the kind friend to 
whom I was talking. I answered him no, not that way, as the 
( Ireator did nothing by harsh or rough means. I merely said, he 



TO DOUBTING MAN. 125 



simply evaporates one portion, causing it by this means to pass 
into the firmaments, or his store- house. A very large one it is, 
and does contain many valuables for man, without which he 
could not live. By living we breathe, by breathing we live; by 
living we act, by acting we live; by evoluting we live, by living 
we e vol ute; thus time rolls on and on. Hence how important 
it is that we should know ourselves; knowing our own selves, 
how much easier it is to know of the Creator. Now, a friend 
said you must know the Greek language before you can teach 
correctly of the Creator's works. I say it is not essential. 
Though I know not a Greek word, I say this: The Greeks have 
passed away many years and man has been much enlightened 
since that time, and if I had presumed upon the Greek or Latin 
I would not have learned what I have learned. JSTow, I will say 
of a truth, and all mechanics will bear me out in the assertion, 
if a man makes a machine, you must take that machine and 
study it over and over to understand the machine. When 
understood, you can speak intelligently of it without Greek or 
Latin, most especially if you speak to a person that does not 
understand Greek or Latin. Don't understand me to oppose 
learning Greek or Latin, but I must say if you write in Greek 
let it be Greek, if in Latin let it be Latin, if in English let it 
be English, and use such words as the common people are 
acquainted with, and the more learned will most assuredly under- 
stand them, unless they are like the woman that was with the 
Virginia .regiment in Mexico for eighteen months, who said she 
had been with the Mexicans so long she could not speak her 
own language, and I am sure she could not speak a word of 
Spanish. 

Sceptic, I am traveling with you, and I must show you many 
things more than I have, though what I have said and shown 



126 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT.. 

would be sufficient for ninety-nine out of the hundred, but, as 
we had doubters in the day of Christ's advent, we can say they 
are still here, as the mind evolutes. We had thieves at the cru- 
cifixion, and still we have thieves; we had liars in that day, and 
we still have liars; we had blasphemers in that day, and still 
we have them; we had betrayers in that day, and still we have 
them; we had drunkards in that day, and still we have drunk- 
ards; we had fore-parents that were anties, and still we have 
anties, and will continue to have at the last hour, as did Noah 
at the last day, up to the coining of the flood, and so they will be 
to the coming of the fire. Now, does gas evolute? It does. 
Then, most assuredly, we will have it on that day, for it does 
condense and return to the reservoir of the Creator, thence to 
the fire, as well as the water of the ocean, rivers and springs. 
The little riplet says, "I am hurrying back to the ocean," as it 
tumbles over the rocks and pebbles and rushes on down to the 
ocean, then to the evaporating lire, up again on high it ascends 
only to fall again upon the dry earth and again tumble over the 
rocks and pebbles, rushing on to the oc ean to aid in bearing the 
mighty ship from shore to shore. 

Sceptic, I will take you further. I will go into the gardens 
and help you read the lillies of the valley. See them in their 
beauty here. Here darkness has me overtaken and 1 will wait 
until to morrow to further paint the glories of the scene as 
Nature gives them to my mind — when the mind wanders out 
in search of Nature's work. Now, upon this stroll,.it can be- 
hold legions, for wonderful and mighty are His works, and here 
Christ comes in for a share to be accomplished after the close 
of Adam's day. Now, then, we will take the great forests of 
the valleys and mountains. We will learn how and why the 
tree shoots its tiny branches upward. In so doing I will com- 



TO DOUBTING MAN. 12: 



pare it to the mighty waters. Here I will show you the waters 
in tiny streams, running down the mountain gorges to the 
valleys, thence in branches to the rivers, thence in rivers to the 
ocean, when it is beat by the mighty winds and caused to wave 
to and fro, giving terror to the man in the ship. Why shall we 
say like the trees of the forest? Because the tree rises from 
the germ and sends out its small branches to drink in the sub- 
stance placed above to build it up to a mighty tree. First it 
enters through the leaf, which has a small beginning like unto 
the rippling stream, thence to the small branches, thence to 
the small limbs, thence to the large limbs, which is like 
unto the rivers that conduct it to the body, which is like 
unto the ocean for size and strength. The winds beat 
against it and cause it to wave to and fro like the ocean. 
It goes down to the Antipodes, meets with the fire and is 
returned to the store-house of the Creator, ready to feed a 
new tree another season. Thus man goes, thus the tree grows, 
thus the water flows to the ocean's shore. And thus man basks 
beneath the morning's sun, and waits for Christ his work to be 
done. Xow, sceptic, these are things plain to the eye; how 
can you, Oh! how can you, pass them by? 

Sceptic, pass with me to eternity. This you cannot do unless 
you pass through the fire and are born again anew. With 
Christ, then, upon our journey we will pursue, and doubting 
then will be no more. 

A doubter I was long constrained to be, 

But now from all my doubts am free ; 

I cherish Nature and long for Christ to see, 

That I may forever dwell in eternity, 

Beyond this doubting world of sin, 

With courage we will march through brambles thick and thin, 

To the fire which is destined to let us in. 



128 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

We will view the scene with rapturous praise, 

And with our voice shout His name always. 

Sceptic, come with us to learn 

That you may not your Creator spurn ; 

But do His bidding here on earth, 

That you may enter through the new birth, 

And forever sing, without a doubt, 

The Savior will always be found about. 




LETTER TO MY AUNT. 



Cheeseville. America, Sept. 16, 1616. 
To 31 y Very Much Beloved Aunt, Scargenville, Eng.: 

This epistle leaves me enjoying the greatest amount of health 
imaginable, and well might it be so, for we are near the moun- 
tains, among the most wonderful forest our eyes ever beheld. 
The trees are thick and tall, their leaves, which have accom- 
plished the growth of the summer season, are now beginning to 
turn gray, preparatory for the autumn fall. The nuts are 
abundant, and have already begun to fall to the ground. The 
gray squirrel, nimble he is, bounds from limb to limb, and thus 
he shakes the early nuts off at the same time. It would amuse 
you to see him curl his extremity over his back and scissor the 
hull from the nut, and thus he grows fat. John goes out of a 
morning and soon returns with enough meat for the clay, and a 
good send off it is for us. as we have only two cows and calves, 
four chickens, two geese, three ducks, two hogs and seven pigs, 
one mare and colt and a bee-hive. Our nearest neighbors are 
one hundred and fifty miles west. They are Cherokee Indians. 

John has raised one acre of corn and twenty bushels of po- 
tatoes; has a nice patch of turnips growing, and thirty cabbage- 
heads — they are very fine, large as a half -bushel, also a few 
parsnips and carrots. This is what we have, by the sweat of 
John's face, prepared for the winter. The remainder we will 
go to the forest for, and if John's powder and lead does not give 
out we will have a plentiful year, and a good Christmas dinner. 



130 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

I am like all women obeying the command of the Creator, 
subject to my husband, travailing in childbirth. I now have 
two children. One I call Martha, the other, a boy, I callGetup. 
I named him so because I knew he would have to get up and 
strive to live in this forest. 

We have the most delicious water your eyes ever beheld. It 
rushes out of the hill, between two huge lime rocks, and is suf- 
ficient in volume to run a mill from the jump. That jump is 
thirty- two feet over a cliff, then it quietly winds its way through 
the valley of the forest trees, and has within its banks a fish 
for which I have no name, but in the fall they skim the surface 
of the water to the top of the fall and winter in a cave, through 
which the water flows before coming to the surface. Yes, I 
can sit for hours and watch them as they ascend the current. 
They are a round fish and are covered with reddish specks, 
that makes them a very handsome fish. In the winter time we 
have only to enter the cave with a rude dip net made of hickory 
bark, peeled off the tree in the summer and plaited into a mat, 
cupped and fastened to a long pole. Thus equipped, we dip 
down, raise up and we have plenty of fish for the day. I fry 
them in bear's grease, which answers well for lard. Martha and 
Getup are very fond of this, and just as happy as the pigs when 
they return from a stroll out in the forest, where they crack nuts 
to their great delight. John will have a larger patch next year 
if all goes well, and it looks that way now. 

Deer are plentiful- -we don't care to kill them much, only for 
their hides. John has a full suit of buckskin; the Indians 
learned him to dress the hides. Bear skins make a very fine 
cover for winter, as well as being soft to lay on. 

If you could just be here to view our happy home, for a short 
season, I think you would not long for city life, any more. 



LETTER TO MY AUNT. 131 

Cheeseville, so named because the first cheese was made here; 
it weighed four pounds. Getup is just beginning to talk, and 
if he does not make a great hunter T will miss my aim, for I 
am raising him for that purpose. 

Martha, too, will learn the forest well, 
Though in the cottage we will dwell. 

Well, Aunt, you know the forest always begot romance, so it 
tills me with romantic feelings. I cannot with the pen tell and 
I am sure you can remember full well 1 was always lingering 
behind my classmates and could not repeat the lesson well. We 
have no preaching here, but John has the old family Bible, from 
which he reads a chapter occasionally. Yesterday he read where 
Christ said, I am the vine and the life of all creation. John 
stopped and said, interpret it if you can. I dropped my head 
in the forest as we were and repeated life and vine, and vine and 
life, and thus I quietly lay my pen down and returned to my 
school days. Some one else of the school class must answer. 
All was silent. Then he read, Christ came that all mankind 
mio-ht be saved. I said, saved from what? From sin? Who 
sinned? Adam and Eve. Then he come to something in regard 
to their offspring. Then we are their offspring, so we will march 
along and be saved. A wonderful thing to dwell in the shady 
groves by the swiftly running streams and be saved through 
Christ. Well, Sally, what are we to do? Just what I said in 
another place in my letter. Then we can do our Father's will 
in the wilderness. There is where he sent us to do it. Do 
what? His will. What was his will? I cannot repeat it; I 
told it in another place. You must go back, or remember what 
you read. Words are sensible, conveying ideas communicated 
by sound or the pen. Oh, yes, this letter I am to send across 



132 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

the ocean. It is words marked out by letters, and will commu- 
nicate my thoughts to Aunt, on the other side of the waters. 
That is why we need to be educated — yes, yes. I did not see it 
so well then as I do now, or I would have applied myself more 
closely than I did. I will try and instill this in Martha's and 
Getnp's heads, that they may see more cleariy than I do. I 
think, John, they will have a better opportunity to study here 
in the forest than they would in a busy city. Everything seems 
to come so easy and all show the handiwork of the Creator. 

Aunt, I can see these two children are bright cherubs of the 
forest, and they will be able to read lessons from Christ, given 
upon the hills and in the valleys alike. Yes, Christ went away 
out in the Mount and there he fed the multitude that followed 
him. They had visible only live small loaves of bread and seven 
small fishes. I presume the fish were fried, as there was noth- 
ing said about kindling a fire. Now the work of feeding this 
multitude began. What did Christ say He was? The vine and 
the life of all creation. Now, I see, He being the same or pos- 
sessing the same power of the germ by condensing the flour in 
the bread, thereby adding to its volume sufficient to feed them, he 
did likewise with the fish. No miracle here, aunt. Just a plain 
act of Christ's power to perform. Now, aunt, we children of the 
forest are becoming wonderful. It must be hewed down and the 
valley blossom with the rose and the vine caused to bring forth 
our fruit, moving us forward beneath the milkyway, in the direc- 
tion of the broad gate through which countless thousands must 
pass. 

Now, dear aunt, I have run this letter much farther than I first 
thought to do. My paper gave out, and I had to tear a fly-leaf 
from the Bible to finish upon, so have it preserved through our 
generation that Martha and Getup and their children may read 



LETTER TO MY AUNT. 133 



it in the wilderness a thousand years from this day. So T must 
ask you to kiss this page when it is unfolded. 

Your niece, in the forest. 

Sina. 




SALLY WRITES TO JANE. 



Jane: 

This morning is more bright than usual. As I arose from my 
slumbers and cast an eye far out on the meadow land, now ready 
for the mowing scythe; yes, its beauties were shown by the many 
rays of the morning sun that had just made their appearance 
on the grass, which had a dewdrop at each and every point it 
possessed. They looked like so many pure diamonds as the 
rays of the sun brightened them. What was more beautiful to 
behold? Yes, mingled with the dewdrops were meadow flowers 
that clustered beneath the rays and this, too, made the heart leap 
with joy as my feet hurried the body and mind along down the 
flowing brook. Yes, it was the spring branch that wound its 
way through the grass, dotted here and there with mint, which 
sends forth its fragrance with the morning dew as it returns to 
the powers of the sun, to the store-house of the Creator, to 
appear another morning. By the branch I strolled with hook 
and bait in hand- some trout for breakfast was the command — 
for in the branch they darted to and fro for food — as I go the 
bait is there, the hook to snare, and bring them from the 
water, for, Jane, you could scarcely imagine how happy I was 
as 1 returned with ray trout, which weighed full seven pounds— 
a breakfast for all. Amusements are to be had — every day we 
find something new. The other day a man came along with a 
scythe and said, " I am going to mow down the green grass 
of the meadow." "Oh, sir,'' 1 said, " spare the flowers." - fc I 



SALLY WRITES TO JANE. 



135 



cannot, miss; all must fall; not one can I leave; the horses, 
cows and sheep must be fed, but they will come again next year 
as beautiful as this, and shall I come, too. Oh, yes, miss; 
when the scythe cuts you down you will return again time after 



time." Here I close, 



Sally. 




NO. 1. 

Fort Worth, Texas, 1889. 
Mi/ uracil esteemed John: 

Long have I sought an opportunity to write you of my new 
home, and I do assure vou there is not one greater pleasure, that 
enters my mind at this time, hut it is of such a character I can- 
not speak of it at present, hut will at some future occasion. 
Suffice it to say it would till your head with wondering electric 
fluid that would carry the mind to this fair land with rapturous 
speed, and. like the magnet at the north pole, almost draw your 
hody with it. But stay, John, for awhile till I draw the misty 
veil from your eyes, then, like the turbulent water, you can 
rush on to the (sea) scene, there to behold what I see and feel 
what I feel. Yet, we must steel our hearts against others' ac- 
tions until we master the depths of their minds and learn cor- 
rectly what their figures represent, and when this is done we 
must rend the veil. But, Oh! how it makes me shiver; tongue 
can not express, pencil cannot paint the picture of our beautiful 
land. Corn in the field, wheat in the shock, hay in the stack, 
peaches, apples, pears, plums, and apricots upon the trees, ber- 
ries in the garden, roses in the yard, strawberries in the dish 
cream and sugar added. Oh, what more could a man Iwenty- 
four wish for than the delicate hands. 

Yours, in much faith, T, I>. 



ANSWER TO NO. i. 

8 UTTERS YILLE, 

On the Atlantic Heights. 
T. B.: Yours, from Fort Worth, is now on the Heights of 

the Atlantic, and I do assure you it sent an electric shock 
through not only the mind, but it pervaded the entire body, and 
caused an exhilerating motion to both mind and body that the 
Atlantic could scarcely hold me; and, was it not for the hourly 
expectation of the great ship, Mastow, and a portion of her cabin 
freight, I might speed away to your dish of strawberries and 
cream, for there is only one thing sweeter to my lips, though I 
have never had a taste thereof, but long — Oh, how I long for 
the return of that precious one, the ship Mastow. I sit upon 
the heights and cast an eye over the dark blue sea in which 1 
can see nothing except the white caps as the wave strikes 
against the other producing the white cap as they recede; this 
causes the brain to strike the chord that leads to the cell of 
despondence. Then T again see the wave arise and come with 
renewed vigor to remove the wave that drove it back, and, 
T. B., I pick up a lesson that says, rise up against all obstacles 
and so continue until you overcome the heaving breast that 
yearns for comfort in mortal man, and then comfort give with 
a toiling hand, and bring to the shore the ship whose freight I 
adore. Now I behold a sail. I see the dark curling smoke as 
it ascends above the ship that proudly rises upon the dashing 
waves of the blue sea, and I must hurry to the ocean's edge to 



138 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



meet my long pledge. Yes, I long to meet that which is 
sweeter than a dish of strawberries and more lovely than a field 
of corn or stack of hay. Fruit is not half so sweet; so I can- 
not stay. 

Yours > John. 

P. S. — Don't forget old times. 







TO MY LONG NEGLECTED SISTER 



Forty years have passed since we last met. Then our eyes 
were bright and our hair was the color of the raven's feathers; 
our cheeks were rosy and without a furrow; our limbs were 
nimble, joints supple, and we skipped as does the lamb, in the 
spring of the year; frolicsome we were then; the violin made us 
tip the floor with the toe, and as we went or made the j oily 
round — yes, our eyes meet the eyes of others in the gaiety of 
the dance. So we thus passed along, not knowing what scenes 
awaited us in the forty years to come. Now we can revert the 
mind and see them all, but not a word by us has been spoken 
that fell on the ear of each other. 

All that has thus passed is imaginary, and imagination is only 
a vague scene that does not fill the mind with any solid matter. 
Hence it must pass as the time has passed since we last parted, 
sister. When was that? It is a lost dream to me. I can't call 
any remembrance of it. It is gone, gone forever, I imagine. 
Sister, shall we meet again? Time seems to whisper — No! 
No! ! for forty years has been a long time passing, and we have 
not met to greet the passing, nor to behold the fading eye or 
furred cheek, nor the gray hairs of the head. Sister, if we were 
to meet it seems to me that time has so completely wiped out 
the future that the cell of joy could not be complete; the nim- 
ble joint is stiffened; the quick step has become slow and de- 
crepid; the raven hair has become thin and white like unto a 
winter's frost, and I am constrained to say, with a tear in my 



140 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



eye— when, oh when, could we renew the day of youth! The 
tear trickles further down the cheek and stops, seemingly to 
say— when, oh when, can we renew the days of our youth! 
The tear trickles further down the cheek and stops, seemingly 
to say — when, oh when, can we renew our youth! and again it 
starts and falls to the ground and is lost beneath the dust — that 
is, to our sight. Then, again, I say, when, oh when, can we re- 
new our youth! then I stick my finger in the dust and write — 
when, oh when, can we renew our youth! The winds come and 
blow the dust away, and I cry and say — when, oh when, can we 
renew our youth! I go down to the ocean's edge and listen at 
its moanings and sighings, and again I drop a tear in the 
water's edge; I look for it, and it is gone; it is mingling with 
the mighty ocean and lost to sight, and I cry aloud — where, oh 
where, can we renew our youth! I turn myself around. I 
cast the eye to the starry sky and behold the meteors as they 
fly, and in the anguish of a wearied soul say — where, oh 
where, will Ave go to renew our youth! I now involuntaiily 
cast my eye to the north, and I say — sister, see, behold! there 
is the seven pointers — the farthest to the right is the represent- 
ative of our Creator; the next one in the line, looking south, 
represents Christ; the third one, the Holy Spirit; then, in the 
same line, there stand Enoch, Elijah and Eastland, all seem- 
ingly saying -here is the place to renew your youth! Yes, 
the three last spoken of will tell you all about it and show you 
how it is done. They say look away south and west, yon will 
see a mighty tire; you will have to pass through that, after 
which you will know, where you will renew your youth. There 
we will reign. sister, not with forty years of separation, and 
move not with stiff and wearied limbs; the tear will not come forth 
from the eye and fall to the dust, nor will we be constrained to 



TO MY LONG NEGLECTED SISTER. 141 

cry out — ••Oh. where will we go to renew our youth !" but in 
the first garden it will be — 

The second garden we will see. 

The third garden is free for you and me : 

The fourth garden's beauty I cannot describe : 

The fifth is by its side — and the sixth and 

Seventh are made wide, and are the Creator's pride. 

Now, sister, the wilderness has been passed, and we are free 
from sin — the sin of Adam and Eve. TTe can take an imagin- 
ary stroll in the land of Canaan, and whilst it is on the same 
earth that we are on at this time, all traces of the curse have 
been removed, therefore it is a new heaven and new earth. Here 
we will walk the golden streets of the New Jerusalem, for here 
we will need no more sold for exchange, hence we will be 
allowed to use it for sidewalk.-. Yes, we will have our youth 
renewed with happiness. 

Si-ter. I greet you. W. W. D. 




To My Grand Children and Great Grand 
Children. 



September 16, 1889. 
In 1989 you are requested to come together, as many of you 
as can be found, and in assembly read this letter, as coming 
from your long-departed grandfather, who was of the Adamish 
family, having traveled in the wilderness from the advent of 
Adam therein. This travel, my dear children, has been like 
unto the seasons — they come as usual, and tirst form the spring 
of the year, which represents childhood tender and -fresh, the 
bud of all vegetables as they shoot from the parent germ, send- 
ing forth their pleasant smiles and fragrance to man and beast. 
They all hail those things with delight which fills them with 
joy. Then comes the summer, robed in her garment of white, 
in all imaginable beauty, seated on ten thousand hills, bearing the 
smiles of ten thousand rays of light from the sun, which adds 
ten thousand more charms, and as they pass in review of the 
sun they seem to say our beauty has scarce begun; then the 
moon, with her silver light, adds new lustre to her silver gar- 
ments as they are gently rustled by the spirit-like move of its 
-nothing touch. Then the stars shine out with their semblance 
of purity, and thus the summer is crowned with a carpet of 
green that beggars the pencil to describe its scene. Then we 
behold the cattle on the ten thousand hills, for man's delight 
given, and thus the summer enters and passes to the fall, which 
brings about a different scene. The green takes on a golden 



GRAND CHILDREN. 148 



hue, and man's heart is delighted to gather in the summer's 
crop before the blightiug winter comes. Then man becomes 
quite busy in his pursuit of gathering into the store -house, 
and thus man spends the fall months with much delight- —when 
the summer months had been spent in mowing down the briars, 
thistles, brambles and thorns that bread might be had. 

After this golden age, now the earth has raised to or near its 
upward motion; the pressure is great and the ice and snow ap- 
pears; the cold blast drives us to our tenements, where one por- 
tion of the flaming sword fire must be brought to bear in order 
to counteract the other portion of the flaming sword, whose 
edge turns in all directions. Thus the winter passes, and the 
earth has dropped half-way down the pole and spring will soon 
again appear. Thus the earth e volutes year by year, producing 
four seasons — one of forming, one of maturing, one of gather- 
ing, one of consuming or decomposing. 

Thus we pass on and on, almost heedless of ourselves, until 
the golden curls become like unto the light of the moon ; then 
we begin to view the furrows of the forehead, and cast our eyes 
back to the spring time of life and exclaim with the electric 
flame — where and when and how can we renew our youth! 

Now, I say to you, children, you must cease to move or act; 
decomposition must take place, and according to our usages 
your living friends must lay your bodies away in the grave; 
then the Creator's laws must be fulfilled, and your bodies 
must pass to his store-house in the spirit form and return to 
the body again and again, until the great renovating fire comes 
and destroys the germ of Adam and Eve. Then, then, oh then, 
you will find where to renew your youth through the germ of 
Christ; it will come from the spirit and water in true child 
form, like unto little babes. In the first heaven you will be 



i44 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

passing step by step up to the seventh heaven. You will know 
here is where the Father through the Son, will welcome all to 
the tree of life which He debarred Adam and Eve from. Thrice, 
thrice, thrice happy there we shall forever be- 
Amidst this happiness we will sit ourselves down, 
And rejoice beneath the diadems of our crown. 

Grandfather, 
To the Grand Children. 




This Letter is Addressed to my Mother, Who 
Died February 4. 1825. 



Mother — I was born May 6, 1822. This was at a time all 
nature was smiling beneath the green verdure and a profusion 
of llowers, filled with fragrance rare and profuse. Yes, in the 
rich hollows of the mountains was the may apple, rich with 
profusion of flavor, and a more beautiful flower never grew; 
with a rich golden hue the apple hung on the stem two and two. 
Then there was the puccoon, rich in all its colors, then come 
the daisy or jump- up, with which the boys delighted to snap 
their heads, then there was the red bud, the dogwood rare and 
white as a fair maiden'* face. The service tree sent forth beauty 
from its branches. 

Then we stepped from the forest trees tall, 
And walked amid the green pastures large and small, 
Flower^ beneath our feet with profusion sweet. 
And thus we walk until mothers we chance to meet. 

Now mothers, 1 write these line* to you. You are mothers 

of my mother's flesh and bone, blood and mind, as I have shown 

in this work. Then I look upon all as one common offspring 

bearing the marks of the Creator as given, and those marks can 

not be changed by man. It is useless for him to attempt it. 

The Jew must be the Jew, the redmen the redmen, the black 

man the black, but all can improve their talent and gather oil 

in their lamps so far as to be ready to meet the bridegroom 

when he comes. So mother as my days on earth, for this 

journey was begun amidst beds of flowers and ease, I have 



146 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



journeyed along, not in a tempestuous way, have had fair sail- 
ing all along the journey of life. Why mother has it been so? 
Mother, it was on account of obedience to the law, I was will- 
ing to labor, and I have done it. I endeavored to please and by 
the act have done it. I strove to be honest, which has added 
much smooth water to my bath. I endeavored to cultivate the 
talent given me and I have succeeded well. I have gathered oil 
in my lamps from which emanates a great light, this light gives 
great comfort to benighted man, and will aid much in smooth- 
ing the path I walk in as I journey on in the broad road to 
death. Mother, this doctrine or light is not a thrust at any 
denomination, but asserts all are journeying on to the same 
death, which they are forced to pass through before they can 
enter the first garden of the New Jerusalem, and when all has 
made the first step, they will go step by step until all reach the 
seventh degree of the New Jerusalem, which I lay down is 
matured size and intellect. Then mother we will be fully rein- 
stated in our last home, as was the prodigal son, the trees will 
be laden with, all manner of fruits suited to our taste, and the 
flowers I walked among and hailed as beauties will have dwin- 
dled to naught compared with those of the New Jerusalem. 
Yes, mother, it will be a vast plain as broad as the road we 
walked in to death, but through our travels on this road, we find 
the gates to enter through into the flowery beds of ease, in Jerusa- 
lem. Mother, many other things have been told of this blissful 
land by the prophets of old, to give us a longing wish for the 
home there. We will travel steadfast until we return to the 
garden. Mother it is a sweet solace to view the seven pointers 
and view how Christ, Enoch and Elijah with the spirit are 
laboring to dip us up and pour us over into the holy land. 
Yes, how I love to rise from my slumbers at four o'clock and 



LETTER TO MY MOTHER. 147 

view them as they come up from the east with all the solemnity 
of a king in his chariot viewing; his domain. 

Yes. mother. May has passed from me and October has come 
with his chilly blasts, which is cutting down the gay llowers of 
May and turning brown the green hue of the forest and causing 
its fruits to fall to the ground to prepare for rising of another 
season — and so it is with our bodies. Mother, the hair that 
o-ives life and strength is fading its raven hue, has gone or 
mingled with white hairs, which is a sure token of old age. So 
here I am. mother, full one thousand miles west of where you 
started me. Sixty-eight yeai^ have almost rolled by, and this 
14th day of October T sit in a small but cosy room penning 
these words to you, and I am happy to say there is not one 
doubt that looms up in the head or "flickers a light to say I am 
wrong, but they come by the thousands saying right, right. 
Lift up your head and look — amazing to the sight — it is right. 
Mother, T close this letter saving all will be right. 

W. W. D. 



* 



AS IT IS. 



The Creator does not create us, through the act of Adam and 
Eve. We are prepared to duplicate ourselves, but not to per- 
petuate our existence, as is shown by the Creator, by fencing in 
the tree of life. If man could have passed to that tree he would, 
by eating the fruit, have perpetuated his life for all time'to come, 
and that,, too, in the wilderness. Now, is it not a blessed thing 
for man that it is so? He only dwells here for an epoch of time, 
then the wilderness will be cleared up and caused to blossom as 
the rose, and man will be reborn, which will be of Christ, who 
did not possess his germ by violation of the command of the 
Holy Spirit nor sinning against the Holy Ghost. The new 
body will then stand side by side with Christ and walk the new 
streets of this happy made land, having had the curse removed, 
the ocean dried up, the mountains leveled down, the rocks de- 
composed, and all made a beautiful and happy garden in which 
we, the happy people, will walk and feast the eye and smile at 
loveliness as we pass along, for there will be no end to beauty. 
For one walk amidst this scene could we not give all our time, 
save that portion that is necessary to obtain our bread, which 
we were commanded to earn. 

I think, with rapturous minds, 

We could combine, 
And, like the Israelites, move, 

Till Canaan we find. 



DEDICATED TO FORT WORTH 



Thirty Years in the West. 

November 3, 1858, I crossed the Trinity on horseback. Then 
the moccasin tracks were scarce obliterated. The Missouri 
Pacific Railroad bridge crosses at the same place, over which 
long trains of cars crosses almost hourly. Two other branch 
roads cross on the same bridge, one penetrating the north, one 
west, through the Panhandle of Texas, to Denver, Colorado; 
the other east to Texarkana, Little Rock, Ark., Memphis, Tenn., 
and so on. 'When iirst [ landed here the grass was tall, thick, 
and green, and scarce a corn or wheatlield could be seen. Cows, 
almost without number, could be seen, and calves, sleek and fat, 
were all around for man to look at. I entered the Fort about 
12 m. it then consisted of two stores — mixed goods, one tin 
shop with stoves, one grocer with whisky and tobacco, a small 
hotel, a doctor's office, a shoe shop, and two land offices, five or 
six small residences, a well on the square of brackish water. 
Streets nor square could be seen for the grass, and, in this case, 
I said as the boys said, the town could not be seen for the 
houses, but here the town could not be seen for the grass. But 
now, how things are changed! The grass, beneath the tread of 
thousands of busy pedestrians, has given away; houses by the 
thousand — three, four, and five story — have sprung up, and, to 
tell it, you would think it a fairy tale. Nevertheless, they are 
here to be seen. Hotels, in all, about twenty. The Mansion 



160 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

Hotel, four stories high, with spacious halls, excellent bed 
rooms, in suite and single, dining hall, 35x85 feet, with three 
excellent meals served each day, with a reasonable charge of 
two dollars per day. We have many wholesale houses — dry 
goods, grocery houses, very large drug houses, notion houses, 
hardware houses, agricultural implement houses, wholesale and 
retail, boot and shoe houses, ready-made clothing houses, whole- 
sale furniture houses, a large printing house, two daily papers, 
commercial and weekly papers, reporters combined with small 
printing houses, four large flouring mills, a jute and moss-collar 
factory, a tannery, foundries, a stove factory, school houses, 
with thousands of children therein, many large and well-built 
churches, with a large attendance on the seventh day, or day of 
rest, all looking forward to the crowning day in which Adam's 
life germ shall pass away so that all may enter the spirit with 
the water, that they may be born of Christ and then walk 
amidst the beauties of Canaan's happy land and comforts. Oh! 
comfort, this is to me a comfort; this is to me a comfort I long 
to see. One day, then, will bring about a greater change than 
the thirty years has done here. 

Now, all around the site of the Fort, we have broad fields of 
corn, wheat, oats, barley, and grasses, potatoes, cabbage, berries, 
and fruits growing, where very little grew thirty years ago. 
Wells of artesian water flowing, flowers and shrubs of various 
kinds growing. Eleven railroad outlets. A city of thirty 
thousand Adamites all marching in that broad road that leads to 
death. From this you learn of a city situated upon the heights 
of the Trinity. The south winds have a fair sweep at all miasma 
that may arise from a city, so if you should elect to locate here 
you can be assured of finding a healthy place to abide at. We 
have an abundance of good brick and building stone. 



DEDICATED TO FORT WORTH. 151 



Thus I write after thirty years' experience. We have a good 
sewer system; water-works, the Holly system; a good pressure 
for lire purposes; otherwise it is not as good as it might be. 

The ideas in this letter have been gathered in this city, upon 
the banks of the Trinity, and I feel they, like the waters of the 
river, will culminate in a large ocean and thereby spread knowl- 
edge broad-cast over the land, producing comfort in every nook 
and corner of the wilderness, teaching men to live and how to 
die and how they may live and not die. 

Now, Bob, thirty years passed in building a city will and 
must crowd many things upon the mind that I cannot make a 
pen picture of, so they must be left in oblivion until Enoch, 
Elijah, and Eastland come forth and tell all things, or, rather, 
substantiate all things. So you must content yourself with this 
view of our city or come and see for yourself; and, when you 
come, stop at the Mansion Hotel, where, perchance, you will 
iind the writer of this epistle. 



ft 



THE FORM OF WORSHIP. 



Being satisfied Christ did give himself as a ransom for all 
mankind, we feel it our duty to honor Him as such, and to do 
so we must honor Him by demonstrations, or by showing our 
admiration through actions like the Father did unto the Prod- 
igal Son — we should kill the fatted calf and rejoice, being 
exceedingly joyful, with music and dancing and feastiug on the 
good things of the season; rejoicing and giving thanks, not by 
word but by act, for well has it been said, "Actions speak louder 
than words." 

Then we should rejoice with the musical instruments of all 
kinds. To do this we should have days of feasting, when all 
the congregation should meet and feast upon the abundance of 
the land. To do this, I ask that when we meet we locate a 
place for the feast. I think no more suitable place could be 
found than upon or near the three forks of the Trinity. It is a 
genial climate, lovely landscape and trees and flowers flourish 
well almost all the year. Railroad facilities are good, radiating 
to all points of the compass. I will here suggest we purchase 
about sixty acres of land, lay it out in seven divisions, with an 
outer circle representative of the wilderness in which we dwell; 
then give the inner circles their grades- -first, second, third, 
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh gardens; through the outer 
circles you must pass before you reach the inner court or seventh 
garden. Each of those circles shall be adorned with all the 






THE FORM OF WORSHIP. 153 

beauty of trees and tlowers, fountains and brooks can give in 
this land. Prepare a feast for the congregation, to last sixty 
days in each year, so all the people of the State might come 
and rejoice with us in honor of the Christ that is to save us 
from this cursed land of briars, brambles, thistles and thorns. 
The lire will free us from the sin of Adam and Eve and deliver 
us into the new birth. 

I now say let the sixty come together, and set the ball in 
motion that will roll until all are safely housed in the land of 
Canaan, where feasting and joy will perpetually reign. 




EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 



To evolute is to pass from the body of form and evolute into 
the spirit which ascends, -and this is held in the spirit form, 
which cannot be seen by the eye of man, and in that condition 
it floats in the spirit sea. From the germ of the vegetable 
comes wheat, oats, and grasses, as caused to spring forth by the 
germ. After which the spirit of all flesh enters in, being- 
drawn from the ocean of spirit form. By this act our bodies 
enter all growth that give food to man, as well as all the family 
of our group. Then, through this process, our bodies enter 
all living flesh, and from the different animals we subsist upon 
we draw that portion belonging to man. That part belonging 
to other animals, though we eat it, does not remain with us, 
but is passed off and taken to the spirit, to be returned again. 
Hence Christ said, " Bender unto Ca3sar the things that belong 
to Osesar." The Creator claims His own, and, as we are His, 
we must return to Him. The manner in which we are to re- 
turn has been told in this book, but when we are to return has 
not been told. We will continue to pass from the body to the 
spirit and the spirit to the body, until that time come. Then a 
great change will take place. Evolution will cease and all 
things will become fixed, like unto the Father, from the fact we 
evolute. 

The numbers will not be so great as we might imagine. To 
show this, I will illustrate in this wise: The Creator created 
enough matter to form one million human beings, placing it in 



EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 155 

the spirit form, like unto Himself. Then He formed a like 
number of germs and placed them in the earth. He planted a 
tree that grew up in the midst of the forest, and the tree bore 
a fruit that drew the germ from the earth, and contained the 
same in its fruit, and one of His created subjects approached 
the tree, did pluck the fruit from the tree and eat the same. 
The flesh being genial to the fruit it received the germ, and 
thus they became prepared to bear the germ, and when coupled 
with the life-giving power which the male possesses then there 
was a condition to beget their kind, but no other. So it was in 
the garden, and so it was established in the wilderness — -made 
legal by the Creator, after which man solemnized, and thus the 
march begun. Now the number of germs was to be filled by 
drawing from the spirit. Each germ appeared through the 
regular channel, as was designed by the Creator, then there was 
no more spirit in the storehouse. In order to keep the work 
moving one thousand of those stalks must be cut down and 
decomposed. Through this act they returned to the reservoir 
of the spirit, from which they, or the spirit in return, through 
the proper channel, to the stalk, thus forming one thousand new 
stalks. Deduct from the total the number cut down and you 
have only your first number; so you continue to cut down until 
the million is cut down. And again return and you have the 
number you commenced with — no more, no less. So now you 
can see how to trace your mother back to Eve, the first mother. 
We only have to step from mother to mother until we arrive 
at the first. Now, as we know not our mothers when they 
arrived back in our midst, so we will not know them when we 
all arrive in the new Jerusalem until the three substantiators 
come forward and make all things known to us, the children of 
• Christ, and not of Adam, for he is dead, as the Creator said he 



156 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



should be before he violated the edict. With this view of 
things, we have light sufficient to guide us in with the bride- 
groom, where more light will be given. Then I will state, as I 
have said, mind is matter, and so it is. Without the matter 
there is no mind. Without the flesh and bone there is no body. 
Without the head there is no mind. With the head, and with- 
out the matter, there is no mind. Without the brain and electric 
cord, there is no mind. The mind is, then, light emanating 
from the matter, through electricity, or by the power of elec- 
tricity. Now, as defining the mind further than this, we cannot 
any more than to stop or curb electricity, or hold it in one place. 
It comes and it goes with the rapidity of electricity. So if we 
can't tell what electricity is, we can't tell what the mind is; 
though we can speak of the action of the mind, also of the 
action of electricity. 

So we can say electricity emanates from the naming sword 
that was placed around the tree of life so as to protect it, or 
rather prevent man from coming to the tree and partaking of 
the fruit. Thus the Creator has most effectively prevented him 
from so doing for six thousand years, though man has laid many 
plans to pass that sword, but has always been completely de- 
feated in this attempt, by its power (the sword). From 
the fact such is the case, I am warranted in saying there 
is none wiser nor more perfect in this respect. There is 
not one that can say, 1 am more perfect than another; 
we all stand on the same line as does the Creator, Christ 
and Holy Spirit. Next. I will bring in the other three — 
Enoch, P^lisha and Eastland. They are in the same line. 
Then conic- Adam, Eve and the germ -three in the same 
line. Thus we have three active powers in the great drama 
of life, in the constellation. The three last were driven out- 



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into utter darkness, through which they have groped their way 
for a time, and as the others spoken of desired their return into 
the light again, they set a plan to work in order to bring them 
back into the fold again. The plan of redemption is made suf- 
ficiently clear, if man would know himself. " Man, know thy- 
self," is a command from the first three. To know ourselves 
we must not presume too much from Greek and Latin, for they 
lived in a darker age than we do. I say this from the fact Christ's 
followers could not understand or interpret many of His sayings 
and works. Then the time is coming when we are to have the 
comforter. What should we look for as being that comforter? 
Some might look for a king or a great ruler to give comfort; 
some will look for one thing and some another. As Christ did 
not say in what shape it would come, so we can find various 
things that are a comfort to us. It is a comfort to have 
an abundance of this world's goods. That is thought to give 
comfort and ease. That was not Christ's mission. He came to 
save souls — the lost children of Israel. He worked for that 
end while on earth, teaching and sending light into the darkened 
heads of his brothers, so when He had about finished His mis- 
sion He said: I go; as I go I will send you the comforter. So 
it was left for us to find out what that comforter was to be. 
Then it sounds as though it was to come in the form of a per- 
son teaching or giving out what the comforter is to be. What 
greater comfort could we have than to have the darkness re- 
moved and shown clearly what we are and how we are to be 
saved, and all flesh that man is heir to will be redeemed: 

Saved from the curse of Adam and Eve's sin, 
Yes, yes it will usher comfort in, 
To show how we are to be saved from sin, 
Marching through darkness into light again. 



168 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 

Electricity and mind are to ns about the same thing as their 
action on objects at a distance seems to us to be simultaneous — 
let the distance be what it may, when a shock is given it is 
felt at the same moment through a circle of fifty or a hundred 
alike. The mind can select any one of the same circles in like 
time. 

And I am constrained to say there is a joint property in the 
spirit. If this is true electricity can be easy and more effectu- 
ally stored in what I term electric fluid, as in the cells of the 
heads of animals. This oil is the oil Christ has reference to in 
the parable of the virgins, and I am constrained to say it passes 
through the hair into the cells of the head, thereby he, the 
possessor of the head, attains knowledge of present or distant 
objects; then I say we gain this knowledge as we grow from 
our birth. Babes have the cells but not the oil, hence no child 
knows when it was born into life or brought into space, bnt 
others substantiate the time and manner, and by this we obtain 
our knowledge of the act, so we can safely say after we are 
born of Christ and arrive at a proper age. We can listen to 
Enoch, Elisha and Eastland while they make known to us all 
that has passed as well as that which is to come. Then, as the 
Creator said, I am omnipresent in all things and all things in 
me. This being the case he must be largely composed of elec- 
tricity as well as flesh and blood, for we were made in his image, 
I presume we contain a large amount of electricity. Through 
its power we are, through its power we think, move, breathe 
and live, and it is left to us to cultivate this power, thereby 
raise its standard or grade; hence, I say, cultivate the hair of 
the head, wash it, rub it, so as to keep it clean and pliant. 
Here 1 will say when you see a fat and sleek horse on the street 
you admire him for his beauty of shape and hair. Follow him 



EVOLUTION GIVES TRUE LIGHT. 159 



to his stable, see his groom, look at the comb, brush and rub- 
bing-rag. It is the use of these tools that make the horse look 
so glossy, and through this glossy appearance lie (the horse) 
receives a good share of electric fluid that gives life and 
strength. Strength and life produces action, and thus the 
horse moves with rapidity; and so man is caused to think and 
act when a like result is given. 

Then man gather the precious oil while living, 

For when you are dead, you will be to the spirit given. 



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FOOD OF THE MIND AND BODY. 



In this I assume the mind is fed in a different manner to the 
body, each possessing different properties separated from each 
other, though acting together. The food of the body is obtained 
from the vegetable. The vegetable obtains it from the firma- 
ment as well as from the earth, though the earth furnishes the 
germ, the firmament the pulp and flour. This pulp and 
flour is made up of all animal matter. When we partake of 
the matter our germ extracts that which is genial to our germ. 
The remainder passes off and becomes food for such animals as 
it was made for by the Creator. This I hold to from the fact 
man lives without mind, or light. Now, then, I hold that the 
body is fed through all cereals. Then comes the mind, which 
is fed on a different base. It is fed through electric liuid. This 
is composed of electricity and matter collected through the hair 
of the animal. The mind being supported by the electricity 
drawn from the oil in which the electricity is contained, the 
oil passes off from the head when the electricity has been con- 
sumed in or by the act of thought or speech. Thus the mind 
and body act together in the same body, and evolution changes 
it through decomposition, sends the same into the spirit, and 
from the spirit to the body. Couple mind, body and germ, 
and yo» have three in one. Traveling to death and renovation 
through the fire, and a return through the germ and spirit of 



FOOD OF THE MIND AND BODY. 161 



Christ. This will be life eternal, where the fire and decomposer 
and wicked germ cannot come. 

There man will rest beneath the genial sun ; 
When his work and glory has fully begun. 
There he will bask in the flowery garden of ease. 
And sing the songs of love, with grace to please. 




CLOSING CHAPTER. 



Reader, this chapter contains my closing remarks. You must 
from them fill the cells of light, otherwise grope your way, as 
does the blind, until you fall into the ditch. This will contain 
a mere summary of what I have previously said, filling up, if 
possible, the blanks therein, so I can offer no apology for what 
the empty cells have debarred me from filling. 

This case is clearly illustrated by Christ's parable of the un- 
wise virgins that slept on the roadside without oil in their 
lamps. In this case I refer you to the cells of the head, which 
are lamps when containing electric oil that gives light to the 
mind. When the electric wire is dipped in the light goes forth 
and is a guide to the virgin on her way with the bridegroom. 
How essential it is the oil should be had. 

I now pass to the vision wherein the last and first are men- 
tioned. He raises himself from the tube of asbestos upon which 
he sits and peers in and beholds the gas ignited with fire; he 
drops in the last Adamite on earth; he passes into the spirit, 
but does not mingle with the outer spirits of man, being in- 
cased in the asbestos. He is kept separate from them, for the 
top of the tube is sealed up like the bee cell, and thus he is 
kept separate from all others until his birth takes place; then, 
like the young bee, he will come forth and join Enoch and 
Elijah and be thoroughly taught in all things; being the last 
and the first, he speaks with them in substantiating all things. 
The degrees of glory are as they arise in purity; they pass from 



CLOSING CHAPTER. 163 



one deoree to the other until they reach the seventh, when they 
will behold the Creator and the tree of life. The judgment 
is as you pass through, and all will steadily move forward to 
the seventh degree. The light here does not give the light there, 
for there will be no blind there, but all will see their way 
clearly, being led by the light shown in the great dipper. The 
namiu o- sword will have passed away. Xo more chilly blast or 
scorchino- heat to be felt. The catechism is to aid the young 
to grasp the idea, and this causes the empty cells of the head to 
be filled with the light-giving oil of the head. 

Children, study this lesson well, it will be a comfort to you 
as you journey through the wilderness. 

The biographical sketch is merely to give you some idea of 
the author. It shows the wisdom of the Creator in not filling 
all of the cells of light contained in the head at the same time. 
Had it been the case the mind would have been overpowered 
with light, hence He would not show Himself to Moses, but chose 
to place a bush between them whilst He spoke. Hence man has 
no right to question the knowledge of the Creator nor His ac- 
tions. His wisdom is great and He does all things well; and 
if, through His Son, He permits our return to the garden of 
bliss, it is sufficient for us. 

The fiction in this book is intended to draw the mind to the 
truths herein mentioned. Well do I know the mind of youth 
can be chained with a spider's web, or a single thread thereof, 
and led captive to the great slaughter pen. Youth, I say light 
up your path with true light, and walk thereby unto the great 
light that shows the handiworks of Him that fills immensity of 
space. 

The germ of the vegetable comes from the earth. It rises 
beneath the bark of the tree, and, if all the buds are cut off, 



164 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



many trees will force out a sprout through the bark and give 
new branches to feed the body. Vapor is the spirit and cannot 
be observed by the eye, but when condensed it becomes an ob- 
ject visible to the eye, and all, save the earth, passes into vapor, 
which is the spirit. 

Look to this, reader, that you may pass through your pil- 
grimage with much light and be well prepared for the bride- 
groom, for he cometh in the day and time that you are not 
looking for him. He is preparing hourly for the coming and 
you should do likewise. In this we do not wish you should 
give up any of your earthly work, but be of good mind, com- 
bined with cheerfulness, doing unto others as you would they 
should do unto you. By this I mean, bear your burden with 
comfort, drawn from the true light. What a comfort to know 
that Christ came to redeem all mankind. 

I refer to the falling stars, so called by many of our old folks. 
They say, U I was born the year the stars fell;" or, "I was 
married two years before the stars fell and Patsey was born the 
year the stars fell." 

This, according to my memory, was 1833. I have no written 
record of the event and I may be one year wrong. I was then 
a boy, and, for want of light, could not reason upon the event. 
Now, as I am convinced of condensation of all bodies that form 
all things pertaining to our universe, I can say it was a con- 
densed body of electric fluid, such as gives life and light to man. 
The earth, being a receiver of this fluid, it fell to the ground 
and entered the earth in order to give life and germ to vegeta- 
tion, there having been a drouth in the earth for that matter; 
or, in other words, a greater demand made for electric fluid on 
earth, and as it had to be drawn from the store house of the 
Creator it was sent in the night time that the eyes might 



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behold it. As it Ml on the ground it rolled about before enter- 
ing the earth and thus disappearing from sight; and thus were 
the children of Israel fed in the wilderness by condensing the 
flour and honey together causing it to fall in the camp that the 
hungry might be fed. 

Such things become quite a comfort when we apply them in 
a proper manner. To do this the cells of the head must be 
tilled that the fuse may burn, thereby giving the light essential 
to our action, for we act by the light of the mind, and if that 
mind be corrupted we act wrong, if not corrupted we act and 
do right. 

Reader, we are allotted three secore and ten years. By virtue 
of our acts we live out our time. By disobedience we are often 
cut down and returned to the store- house before the accomplish- 
ment of our allotted time, and, as we were made free agents by 
the acts of Adam and Eve, we must work for ourselves, and 
every one is made responsible for his acts and must meet with 
his reward according to the amount of punishment on earth. 
So we see the murderer in prison, and when justice, or the law, 
is meted out. as laid down, he is hung by the neck until dead. 
We see the thief in jail, the law-breaker working out the fine 
on roads and public works, and so we say law-breakers must 
have their reward, and, on account of Adam and Eve's violation 
of the law, the Ruler has offered us a reprieve through Christ, 
our Mediator; at the same time He has provided abundance of 
the necessities of life on very easy terms;' that is through the 
sweat of the face. 

He gave us heads and talents and means of improving those 
talents, and to do so we have to be up and doing, for our time 
is short and soon will we change actions. Then, to be slothful 
is to be negligent; to be negligent is to cause want; want 



166 EVOLUTION AND TRUE LIGHT. 



causes misery; misery causes you to say and think wrong; wrong 
thoughts causes bad actions; lpad actions causes the law to be 
enforced; enforcement of the law causes sorrow, and thus you 
evolute from one to the other — good or bad. 

JSTow, then, we have a cross to bear; let us bear it, and with 
much fortitude and patience. Through patience and fortitude 
we arrive at the gate and enter into a rest prepared for us at 
the foundations of this wonderful structure — the universe. 

I have said this conveys to the mind the greatest amount of 
comfort that man is capable of receiving, that is, to know that 
all mankind is to be saved in the kingdom of our Maker. 

Then tranquil to rest 

With all mankind blest ; 

It fills our minds with peace sublime, 

And makes us happy awaiting the time — 



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